Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; 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; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I'm a good driver.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Good
  • Driver

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Truth Is

• For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Good
  • Kids
  • You

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Guy

• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• Whatever you are, be a good one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • You
  • Whatever

• There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Lucky

• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Truth
  • Moral
  • Truth Is

• After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Root

• This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • World
  • Great
  • Believe

• My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

  

  Asif Kapadia

• It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Imagination
  • Bitter
  • Jokes

• I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Liberation
  • Eulogy
  • Welcomed

• Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; 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; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Truth