M Tupper Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

The most wretched have yet hope. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names,
For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by their evils;
Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself,
To win for his individual name some clear praise. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

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

Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Lies can destroy, but not create. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Economy, the poor man's mint. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has the bicycle. M. B. loves a fair gentlema. Li Chi Han lovey up kissy Cha Pu Chow. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs VErschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen. Mrs Norman W. Tupper loves officer Taylor. You love a certain person. And this person loves that other person because everybody loves somebody but God loves everybody. — James Joyce

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood. — Martin Farquhar Tupper