Top 60 Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Punctuality is the soul of business.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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2. “Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

3. “Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

5. “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

6. “Circumstances alter cases.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

7. “It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

8. “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

9. “Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

11. “Fact is stranger than fiction.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

12. “Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

13. “The suspicious parent makes an artful child.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

14. “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.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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15. “Death and taxes are inevitable.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

16. “Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

17. “A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

19. “Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

20. “We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

21. “When a man is wrong and won’t admit is, he always gets angry.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

22. “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

23. “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

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

25. “Every man’s religion is his own, and nobody else’s business.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

26. “Money is a necessity; so is dirt.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

27. “Life ain’t all beer and skittles.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

28. “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

29. “Just what part of meow don’t you understand?”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

30. “There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

31. “A temperate anger has virtue in it.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

33. “Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

34. “Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

35. “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

36. “Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

37. “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

38. “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

39. “Nature’s bank-dividends.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

40. “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

41. “Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

42. “Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

43. “Impossible desires are the height of unreason.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

44. “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

45. “Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

46. “Absurdities die of self-strangulation.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

47. “Ceremony is all backbone.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

48. “If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

49. “Self-possession is the backbone of authority.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

50. “Look not to a woman’s head for her brains, but rather to her heart.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton