Furphy Quotes

#1. I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather than on belief. To hold the view that this is not an issue that you need to do something about, to hold the view that it's all a furphy takes belief.

Ross Garnaut

#2. Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

Joseph Furphy

#3. Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity.

Joseph Furphy

#4. On the illusive "Monsieur Hortalez." When my friend Steven and I went looking for the building one afternoon, we came to the address at 47 rue Vieille-du-Temple and realized we had been there before.

Sarah Vowell

#5. True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.

J.C. Ryle

#6. 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

Joseph Furphy

#7. It takes the right guy to show you how wrong the last douche bag was.

Srinivas Shenoy

#8. Unfortunately it's an incontrovertible fact that sound common sense flies out of the window as soon as love comes in through the door.

Kerstin Gier

#9. Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

Joseph Furphy

#10. Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Bruce Lee