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A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
— 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
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
Impossible desires are the height of unreason.
— 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
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
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
— 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
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
— 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
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Punctuality is the soul of business.
— 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
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Ceremony is all backbone.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
— 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
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
— 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
Punctuality is the sole of business.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton