Quote by Kin Hubbard

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out

Summary

This quote suggests that homeowners are constantly engaged in home improvement and maintenance activities. It implies that owning a home requires regular visits to the hardware store to purchase tools, supplies, and materials necessary for repairs and renovations. Homeownership comes with a responsibility to constantly maintain and improve the property, resulting in a recurrent need for hardware store visits. Therefore, it highlights the ongoing dedication and investment required when it comes to owning and maintaining a home.

Topics

Home

By Kin Hubbard

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler objec

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Action(s)

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and frate

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Equality

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Death

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

Love Romance

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the ma

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

Foolishness Fools

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

Jonathan Kellerman

Medical

My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like

My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

Richard Hammond

Car

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be t

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Truth

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an alw

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Opportunity

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible t

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

Christopher Hitchens

Power Force

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it d

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

Time Love People Thetimes Places

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.

Books