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Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: July 17, 1810 - 1889

Topics

Health Pain Rest Luxury Pleasure

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

Family Father Mother Man Control Up

I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a writer. Who could I look to? My favorite authors were Ann M. Martin and E.L. Konigsburg and Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Lois Lowry and Norma Klein. They were all white women, and they seemed so stately to me, so elegant. A whole world away.

Women Age Me Writing World Grow

Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand.

Michael Bloomberg

Today Together Believe Problem Know

I like working with the public, and I like that it's really hard work.

Work Hard Work Hard Working Like

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

Good Music Words Think Go Band

The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really.

Music Ideas World Trail New Group

What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does.

You Privacy More Your Than Discount

I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.

Build Up Used Because Sell Houses

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.

Funny Writing Control Someone Go

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life Self Others Give Been Able

The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

Girl Best World Gossip Say Kind

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

Sebastiao Salgado

Live Paris London Impression Gone

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