Tupper Quotes

#1. Koko B. Ware ... his mom's first name was Tupper.

Bobby Heenan

#2. 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

#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. My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#7. The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Tupper

#8. That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

Charles Tupper

#9. 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

#10. 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

#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. The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.

Earl Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#21. 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

#22. I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

Charles Tupper

#23. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#25. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#32. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#37. Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.

Earl Tupper

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#43. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#46. The most wretched have yet hope.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#48. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#56. It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Charles Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#60. Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not basically a product of the past.

E. Frank Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#62. 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

#63. It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Charles Tupper

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

Charles Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. The pen has shaken nations.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#74. 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

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#80. Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#81. Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#82. Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education,
But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#83. A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

#84. Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#85. O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#86. Economy, the poor man's mint.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#87. Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#88. None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#89. Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#90. The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Charles Tupper

#91. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#92. How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#93. Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#94. Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#95. The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

Charles Tupper

#96. Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#97. Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#98. In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#99. A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#100. Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.

Martin Farquhar Tupper