Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
Historian
Judge
Politician
Writer
Windsor
Nova Scotia
Mark
Weapons
Recoil
Missing
Compliments
Unless
Wounded
Takes
Weapon
Sports
Compliment
May
Aim
Good
Miss
More quotes by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
As soon as a woman begins to dress loud, her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
Lawyers are like priests people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests they don't confess all their sins they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Punctuality is the sole of business.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
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 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?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
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
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Punctuality is the soul 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 injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
