Thomas Chandler Haliburton famous quotes

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

#Beautiful #Memories #Heart

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

#Inspirational #Mind #Stones

Punctuality is the soul of business.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Soul #Punctuality

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

#Fun #Enjoyment

Punctuality is the sole of business.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Punctuality #Sole

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

#Self #Discipline #Denial

Circumstances alter cases.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Cases #Circumstances

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

#Money #Dirt

Ceremony is all backbone.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Backbone #Ceremony

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

#Air #Wish #Castles

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Faults #Sometimes #Sin

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

#People #Fool #Relation

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

#Heart #Brain #Looks

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

#Beer #Skittles

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

#Hate #Sight #Cold

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

#Stubborn #Mules #Jackasses

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

#Travel #Rose #Honey

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

#Vanity #Half #Sticks

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

#Gratitude #Grateful #Opposites

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Order #Harmony #Proportion

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

#Sleep #Bed #Care

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

#Mean #Rich #Economy

Just what part of meow don't you understand?
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Cat

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

#Power #Natural #Authority

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

#Ignorance #Men #Knowing

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

#Stupid #Opportunity #Giving

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

#Hope #Acquaintance #Pleasant

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

#Kissing #Long #Joy

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Hope #Men #May

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

#Anger #Men #Angry

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

#People #Adhesive #Nicknames

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

#Happiness #Country #Character

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

#Children #Parent

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

#Gossip #Rumor #Half

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

#Contentment #Indolence

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

#Wise #Wine #Men

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Sports #Missing #May

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

#Heart #Mind #Charity

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.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Hands #Hats #Expenses

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Elements #Dresses #Manners

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Purses #Belly #Expenses

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

#Happiness #Smile #Mom

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.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Husband #Law #Doe

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Spiders #Lawyer

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.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#People #Pay #Facts

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Women #Forgiving #Never Forget

Death and taxes are inevitable.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Inevitable #Taxes

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Mother #Baby #Wells

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Perfect #People #Genius

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Evil #Anxiety #Over Confidence

An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Strong #Imagination #May

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

#Character #Men #Loud

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Self #Authority #Backbone

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

#Fun #Race #Limits

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Dollars #Hours #Minutes

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

#Deals

Fact is stranger than fiction.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Humanity #Facts #Fiction

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

#Vanity #Four #Fifth

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Envelopes

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

#Anger #Virtue

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Fun #Heart #Light

Nature's bank-dividends.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Harvest

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

#Haste #Catching

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

#Desire #Height #Impossible

Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Doors #Sky #Bird

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Government #Favoritism #Natural

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.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Fool #Philosopher #Sometimes

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Self #Absurdity

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

#Men #Brave #Bully

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

#Luxury #Surrender #Articles