Fair Quotes - page 2

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. (Samuel Daniel)
No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole! View quote
Gordon Korman
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. View quote
Dante Alighieri
The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. View quote
Alexander Pope
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. View quote
Alexander Pope
All is vanity, nothing is fair. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroke the air And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense. (Ben Jonson)
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window. View quote
Michael Palin
But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. View quote
Ani DiFranco
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. View quote
Margaret Fuller
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal. View quote
Sam Harris
It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse. (David Brin)
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. View quote
Philip Sidney
Pernicious weed whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. View quote
William Cowper
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. View quote
Don Marquis
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? View quote
George Orwell