Thomas Chandler Haliburton quotes

Punctuality [...] is the soul of business. (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

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

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Circumstances alter cases.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

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

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

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

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

It seems to me, all created critters look down on each other. The British and French look down on the Yankees, and colonists look down upon niggers and Indians, while we look down upon them all. It's the way of the world, I do suppose; but the road ain't a pleasant one. (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

Commodore Marlin: My friend, I ask you a plain civil question; will you give me a plain, civil answer? Sam Slick: Thinks to myself, Commodore, the question is civil enough, but you ain't civil, and your manner ain't civil.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Always judge your fellow passengers to be the opposite of what they strive to appear to be.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Always judge your fellow passengers to be the opposite of what they strive to appear to be. For instance, a military man is not quarrelsome, for no man doubts his courage; but a snob is. A clergyman is not over strait- laced, for his piety is not questioned; but a cheat is. A lawyer is not apt to be argumentative; but an actor is. A woman that is all smiles and graces is a vixen at heart : snakes fascinate. A stranger that is obsequious and over-civil without apparent cause is treacherous: cats that purr are apt to bite and scratch. Pride is one thing, assumption is another; the latter must always get the cold shoulder, for whoever shews it is no gentleman: men never affect to be what they are, but what they are not. The only man who really is what he appears to be is - a gentleman.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton