List of Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

We Reckon Hours And Minutes To Be Dollars And Cents.

Avarice Fills Its Purse At The Expense Of Its Belly.

Coerced Innocence Is Like An Imprisoned Lark,--open The Door, And It Is Off Forever. The Bird That Roams Through The Sky And The Groves Unrestrained Knows How To Dodge The Hawk And Protect Itself; But The Caged One, The Moment It Leaves Its Bars And Bolts Behind, Is Pounced Upon By The Fowler Or The Vulture.

Impossible Desires Are The Height Of Unreason.

Mothers Can Get Weaned As Well As Babies.

Nature's Bank-dividends.

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 All The Counterweights We Can Muster To Balance The Sad Relations Of Life. God Has Made Many Sunny Spots In The Heart; Why Should We Exclude The Light From Them?

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.

An Uncontrolled Imagination May Become As Surely Intoxicated By Overindulgence As A Toper May Do Bodily With Strong Drink.

Ceremony Is All Backbone.

A Woman Who Wants A Charitable Heart Wants A Pure Mind.

Mules And Human Jackasses Are Proverbially Stubborn.