Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian author Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Punctuality is the soul of business.
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
Circumstances alter cases.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back
Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
Fact is stranger than fiction.
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Punctuality is the sole of business.
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
Death and taxes are inevitable.
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.
There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.
Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.
Just what part of meow don't you understand?
Life ain't all beer and skittles.
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