Famous Joe Hill Quotes

  • Gold don’t come off. What’s good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes. – Joe Hill

    Gold don’t come off. What’s good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.– Joe Hill

  • I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves. – Joe Hill

    I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.– Joe Hill

  • If you didn’t have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn’t be any fire in your life at all. – Joe Hill

    If you didn’t have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn’t be any fire in your life at all.– Joe Hill

  • I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there’s really no hope for you. – Joe Hill

    I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there’s really no hope for you.– Joe Hill

  • You loved me as hard as you knew how. I’d give anything to go back and love you better… – Joe Hill

    You loved me as hard as you knew how. I’d give anything to go back and love you better…– Joe Hill

  • I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make. – Joe Hill

    I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make.– Joe Hill

  • Because, of course, it wouldn’t do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind. – Joe Hill

    Because, of course, it wouldn’t do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.– Joe Hill

  • Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask. – Joe Hill

    Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.– Joe Hill

  • Death and ruin is man’s preferred ecosystem. – Joe Hill

    Death and ruin is man’s preferred ecosystem.– Joe Hill

  • I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. – Joe Hill

    I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.– Joe Hill