Kin Hubbard on compliment
Kin Hubbard103 quotes“Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.”
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Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Knowin’ all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein’ a good whittler.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard It isn’t enough for you to love money – it’s also necessary that money should love you.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Never tell the box-office man that you can’t hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can’t see either.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Many a family tree needs trimming
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Nobuddy ever listened t’ reason on a empty stomach.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
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Abel StarcAbel Starc His promises looked so promising that she just ignored the blatant truths.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
Billy JoelBilly Joel Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.
Rick RiordanRick Riordan You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William FeatherWilliam Feather Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming – being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
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