Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes
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Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
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To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back
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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
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Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
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Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
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If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
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A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
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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.
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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?
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An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.
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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.
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There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
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Fact is stranger than fiction.
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He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
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Punctuality is the sole of business.
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As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
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It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
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Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
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Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
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When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
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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.
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Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
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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.
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Ceremony is all backbone.
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Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.
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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.
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People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- Born: December 17, 1796
- Died: August 27, 1865
- Occupation: Politician
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