Top 47 Thomas Chandler Haliburton Sayings
#1. 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.
#2. 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.
#3. Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
#4. Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
#5. Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
#6. If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
#7. No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
#8. When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
#9. Punctuality is the soul of business.
#10. 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.
#11. To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
#12. 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.
#13. Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
#14. Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.
#15. The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
#16. The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
#17. I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
#18. Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
#19. 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.
#20. [Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
#21. There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
#22. A college education shows a man how little other people know.
#23. 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.
#24. Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
#25. Ceremony is all backbone.
#26. Impossible desires are the height of unreason.
#27. It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
#28. Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
#29. 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?
#30. Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
#31. People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
#32. 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.
#33. When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
#34. Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
#35. Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
#36. A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
#37. Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
#38. Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
#39. A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
#40. Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.
#41. Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
#42. Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
#43. A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
#44. Punctuality is the sole of business.
#45. A temperate anger has virtue in it.
#46. Life ain't all beer and skittles.
#47. Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
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