Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

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

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

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.

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

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

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.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

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?

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

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

Ceremony is all backbone.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

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

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

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

Punctuality is the sole of business.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.