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.…

— 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

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Death and taxes are inevitable.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Punctuality is the sole of business.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton