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"As sharp as a tack" – Thomas Chandler Haliburton Thomas
Chandler Haliburton –
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws
Thomas Chandler
Haliburton, born in Windsor in 1796 and educated at Canada’s first college, King’s
College, Windsor, created the popular fictional character Sam Slick, a Yankee
peddler who sold clocks to unsuspecting Nova Scotians, which he called "Bluenoses". Haliburton’s popular satirical writings made him the "Father of American
Humor". He is still the most commonly quoted writer in America. Thomas
Chandler Haliburton included many wise sayings used in his stories:
As
quick as a wink
Seeing is believing
He drank like a fish
Real genuine
skinflint
I wasn’t born yesterday
You’re as sharp as a tack
A stitch
in time saves nine
Barking up the wrong tree
Circumstances alter cases
A miss is as good as a mile
They are all uppercrust here
The early
bird gets the worm
Facts are stranger than fiction
Give and take, live
and let live
This country is going to the dogs
Punctuality is the soul
of business
You can’t get blood out of a stone
Every dog has his day
in this world
As large as life and twice as natural
Six of one, half a
dozen of the other
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
What a pity that
marryin’ spoils courtin’
He flies right off the handle for nothing
I like
to let every feller grind his own axe
It’s like looking for a needle in a
hay stack
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
Contentment is,
after all, simply refined indolence
A knowledge of God is the foundation
of all wisdom
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents
An ounce
of prevention is as good as a pound of cure
When a man is wrong and won’t
admit is, he always gets angry
A college education shows how devilish little
other people know
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the
most adhesive
It is easier to make money than to save it;
one is exertion, the other self-denial
If a man seems bent on cheating himself,
I like to be neighborly
and help him do it T.C. Haliburton On Relationships…"There
is a private spring to everyone’s affection; if you can find that, and touch it,
the door will fly open, tho’ it was a miser’s heart." "What a
pity it is that marryin’ spoils courtin’." "Matrimony likes contrasts;
friendship seeks it’s own counterparts." "All the girls regard
marraige as an enviable lot, or a necessary evil." "There must
have been a charming climate in Paradise. The temperature was perfect, and cannubial
bliss, I allot, was a real jam up." "Women, in a
general way, don’t look like the same critters when they are spliced, that they
do before; matrimony, like sugar and water, has a nutral affinity for, and a tendency
to acidity." Windsor
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