Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while. – Kin Hubbard
Next to a circus there aint nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. – Kin Hubbard
Bargain… anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. – Kin Hubbard
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in Gods path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. – Kin Hubbard
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers