Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes - Page 2

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

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?

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

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

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

Just what part of meow don't you understand?

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

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

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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.

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.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

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

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

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

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

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

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

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

Circumstances alter cases.

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.

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

Punctuality is the sole of business.