Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

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

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Language
  • Happens
  • Speech

• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Long
  • Wine
  • Trail

• The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Day
  • Football
  • Paris

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Different
  • Language

• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • American
  • Control

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

  

  Sam Robards
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Acting

• There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Day
  • Internet
  • They Say

• Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Family
  • Jewish
  • Identify

• Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Air
  • Cold
  • Leaving

• I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Trying

• A many-colored light flows from our sun; Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun; The prison modifies the perfect day; But thou hast known such mediums to shun, And cast once more on life a pure white ray. Absorbed in the creations of thy mind, Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Art

• I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

  

  Aristotle
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Speech

• 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
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Study