Fair Quotes

2223 Fair quotes by 1579 unique authors

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we… — Henry David Thoreau
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of… — Saint Francis de Sales
Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company. — James Sinegal
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard, is a natural… — Gerolamo Cardano
Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of… — Steve Coogan
Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge… — Steve Pavlina
On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as… — William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as… — William Wordsworth
Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not… — Saint Augustine
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there… — Ambrose Bierce
People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are… — Unknown Author
River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like… — Steven Moffat
Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies… — Steven Moffat
In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a… — Colin Welland
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved… — J. R. D. Tata
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale.… — Laura Hillenbrand
Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make people feel bad, and I… — John Hodgman
I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now. — Debra Wilson
A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing. — John Stuart Blackie
I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British… — Arthur Conan Doyle
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. — William Cowper
The fair sex is your department. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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