1.
Life ain't all beer and skittles.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
2.
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
3.
Punctuality is the soul of business.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
4.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
5.
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
6.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
7.
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
8.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
9.
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
10.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
11.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
12.
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
13.
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
14.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
15.
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
16.
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
17.
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
18.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
19.
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
20.
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
21.
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
22.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
23.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
24.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
25.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
26.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
27.
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
28.
Just what part of meow don't you understand?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
29.
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
30.
Ceremony is all backbone.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
31.
An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
32.
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
33.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
34.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
35.
Circumstances alter cases.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
36.
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
37.
If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
38.
A temperate anger has virtue in it.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
39.
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
40.
Fact is stranger than fiction.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
41.
Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
42.
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
43.
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
44.
Punctuality is the sole of business.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
45.
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
46.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
47.
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
48.
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
49.
Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
50.
A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
