(19 quotes found)
“Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience”
Thomas C. Haliburton
“Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.”
“Punctuality is the soul of business.”
“When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.”
“Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.”
“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”
“To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.”
“I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Shiel, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and so on. These men are all upper crust here.”
“No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.”
