Thomas Haliburton Quotes & Sayings

The suspicious parent makes an artful child. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Ceremony is all backbone. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Life ain't all beer and skittles. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do? — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Punctuality is the sole of business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A temperate anger has virtue in it. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Impossible desires are the height of unreason. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A college education shows a man how little other people know. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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? — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Absurdities die of self-strangulation. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Money is a necessity; so is dirt. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Punctuality is the soul of business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton