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Kin Hubbard
(1 Sep 1868 - 26 Dec 1930)
American cartoonist and humorist whose creation, the 'Abe Martin of Brown County' cartoon was syndicated in American newspapers (1904-1930). It was set in Brown County, Indiana.
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Science Quotes by Kin Hubbard (8 quotes)
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can’t buzz any slower.
— Kin Hubbard
As quoted in Henry Wysham Lanier, The Golden Book Magazine (1931), Vol. 13, 85.
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can’t buzz any slower.
— Kin Hubbard
As quoted in Henry Wysham Lanier, The Golden Book Magazine (1931), Vol. 13, 85.
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can’t buzz any slower.
— Kin Hubbard
As quoted in Henry Wysham Lanier, The Golden Book Magazine (1931), Vol. 13, 85.
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
— Kin Hubbard
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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
— Kin Hubbard
Unverified. Need primary source. Can you help? Widely seem, but without citation, for example, in Jon, Michael and Deborah Fripp, Speaking of Science (2000), 203.
Now an’ then an innocent man is sent t’ th’ legislature.
— Kin Hubbard
In Kin Hubbard and David S. Hawes (ed.), The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe’s Neighbors, his Almanack, Comic Drawings (1984), 14.
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.
— Kin Hubbard
In Evan Esar, 20,000 Quips & Quotes (1968, 1995), 277.
When a feller says, “It hain’t th’ money, but th’ principle o’ th’ thing,” it’s the money. It’s no disgrace t’ be poor, but it might as well be.
— Kin Hubbard
In Kin Hubbard and David S. Hawes (ed.), The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe’s Neighbors, his Almanack, Comic Drawings (1984), 4.
Quotes by others about Kin Hubbard (1)
Kin Hubbard is dead. To us folks that attempt to write a little humor his death is just like Edison's would be to the world of invention. No man in our generation was within a mile of him, and I am so glad that I didn't wait for him to go to send flowers. I have said it from the stage and in print for twenty years. … Just think — only two lines a day, yet he expressed more original philosophy in ’em than all the rest of the paper combined. What a kick Twain and all that gang will get out of Kin.
In 'Will Rogers Pays Tribute To Hubbard and His Humor', The New York Times (27 Dec 1930), 15.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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