Quote

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
Historian
Judge
Politician
Writer
Windsor
Nova Scotia
Proportion
Wherever
Harmony
Order
Music

More quotes by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Image
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
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
Image
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
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
Image
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Wise men, like wine, are best when old pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
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
Image
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.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Circumstances alter cases.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Life ain't all beer and skittles.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Punctuality is the sole of business.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
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.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
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
Image
Just what part of meow don't you understand?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Image
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton