Fair Quotes
2223 quotes by 1579 authors
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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to…
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
— Jack Nicklaus
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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was…
— Unknown Author
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
— Dante Alighieri
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We want the Army to be society's model of fair treatment. We want to assure that all soldiers are treated fairly, not because it is…
— Silas L. Copeland
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,…
— William Cowper
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation,…
— Bill McKibben
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the…
— John Dryden
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But…
— Robert Greene
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Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?
— Pete Dye
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There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the…
— Shannon Miller
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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire…
— John Keats
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union.…
— Cesar Chavez
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It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
— Clarence Day
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We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on…
— Theodore Dreiser
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