Fair Quotes

2223 quotes by 1579 authors

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
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
Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game. — Jack Nicklaus
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
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
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. — Dante Alighieri
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
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
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. — Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
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
Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair? — Pete Dye
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
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
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
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
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
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for. — Clarence Day
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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