Backbone Quotes by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fact is stranger than fiction.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Nature's bank-dividends.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton