Famous Sayings

When Halliburton wrote his stories about Sam Slick and the Clockmaker, he came up with many sayings we still use today. 

Famous sayings popularized by Sam Slick, from Windsor’s own Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865):

…quick as a wink

Facts are stranger than fiction.

It’s raining cats and dogs.

…six of one, half a dozen of the other

…barking up the wrong tree

…won’t take no for an answer

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

You can’t get blood out of a stone.

This country is going to the dogs.

The early bird gets the worm.

It’s like looking for a needle in a hay stack.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

…a miss is as good as a mile

…mad as a hatter

How many of these sayings do you use? We grew up saying many of these as my parents were born in the Maritimes.