Topsy Turvy Quotes

• Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

  Margaret of Valois

  Love, Romantic, Wise

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• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Order, Sound

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• Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

  Robert Breault

  Perspective, May, Ends

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• [My advice] will one day be found
  With other relics of 'a former world,'
  When this world shall be former, underground,
  Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled,
  Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned,
  Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled
  First out of, and then back again to Chaos,
  The Superstratum which will overlay us.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Science, Advice

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.212

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• Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

  Helen Keller

  Vanity, Mind, Vexation

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

  Andrew Simms

  Country, Ice Cream, Economic Value

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• Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Bumps, Arms

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• As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Men, Long, Doe

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• I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

  George Meredith

  Men, Two, Fine

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.160, Library of Alexandria

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• The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

  Euripides

  Rivers, Sacred, Flow

  "Medea". 409,

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• It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Long

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• As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Sex, Confusing, Trying

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• My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Thinking, People

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• The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Thinking, Ideas, Common Sense

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Preface, p. vii, 1937.

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• That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Luxury, Greed

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• Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

  William James

  Men, Mind, Way

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.

  Shana Alexander

  Children, Kids, Parent

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.

  Os Guinness

  Reality, Views, Doubt

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• A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

  David Icke

  Father, School, Views

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