Farquhar Quotes

#1. Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#2. Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

George Farquhar

#3. Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#4. Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#5. The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

George Farquhar

#6. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

#7. Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#8. To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write.
And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#9. Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#10. False love is only blinder.

George Farquhar

#11. Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#12. Clamorous pauperism feastest
While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#13. The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold
the mind and the power to enjoy it.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#14. Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#15. There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

#16. As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#17. Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#18. Lies can destroy, but not create.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#19. Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#20. Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to live by our own faith, forever renewing the traditions of the past and adapting them to the demands of own time and place.

Farquhar McHarg

#21. How a little love and good company improves a woman.

George Farquhar

#22. Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#23. I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.

George Farquhar

#24. Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#25. Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#26. It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

George Farquhar

#27. Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

George Farquhar

#28. Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

George Farquhar

#29. When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

George Farquhar

#30. Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#31. Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

George Farquhar

#32. How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#33. Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

George Farquhar

#34. He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#35. Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#36. As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#37. True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#38. Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#39. 'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

George Farquhar

#40. It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#41. Rashly, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pass judgment on his brother; for he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the mind.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#42. Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#43. Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

George Farquhar

#44. I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

George Farquhar

#45. Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

George Farquhar

#46. Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#47. The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#48. Moraga's expedition of 1806 added further to the nomenclature of the Sierra. After crossing the San Joaquin his party came to a place which his men called Las Mariposas because of the swarms of butterflies (mariposas) which flew into their eyes and ears.

Francis P. Farquhar

#49. Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#50. A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#51. Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#52. Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#53. Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#54. Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

George Farquhar

#55. If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#56. Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#57. Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#58. Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#59. The most wretched have yet hope.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#60. Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

George Farquhar

#61. Hope and be happy that all's for the best!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#62. I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#63. Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#64. Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#65. A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#66. If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#67. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#68. Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#69. Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#70. No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

George Farquhar

#71. Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

George Farquhar

#72. A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#73. Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#74. A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#75. Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

George Farquhar

#76. Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#77. He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#78. One may like the love and despise the lover.

George Farquhar

#79. We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquhar

#80. Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

George Farquhar

#81. Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#82. Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#83. I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

George Farquhar

#84. Look too on this poor planet of ours,
Torn by the storms of mysterious powers,
Evil contending with good from its birth,
Wrenching in battle the heartstrings of earth,
Ah! what infinities circle us here,
Strangeness and wonderment swathing the sphere!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#85. It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#86. Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

George Farquhar

#87. Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#88. Who shall guess what I may be?Who can tell my fortune to me?For, bravest and brightest that ever was sungMay be - and shall be - the lot of the young!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#89. 'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

George Farquhar

#90. If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness,It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ;But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired,To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#91. For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#92. The pen has shaken nations.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#93. Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.

George Farquhar

#94. Those who know the least obey the best.

George Farquhar

#95. Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#96. It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#97. A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#98. Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#99. A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#100. Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

Martin Farquhar Tupper