Fairs Quotes - Page 39

• The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

  Michelangelo

  Heart, Power, Sublime

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• By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away.

  Charles Dance

  Daughter, Dream, Heart

  Charles Dance (1833). “The Beulah spa: a burletta in two acts”, p.35

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• Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]

  Mike Ferguson

  Assessment, Cynical, Events

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• Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Sex, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

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• To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Availability, Abortion, Feminist

  ""The Women of 'Roe v. Wade'". First Things, June/July 2003.

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  Karl Marx

  Sex, Progress, Ugly

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• The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

  Plato

  Plato, Parent, Noble

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent people are being sentenced to death......It is no answer to say that we are doing the best that we can. If this is the best our state can do, we have no business sending people to their deaths.

  Moses Harrison

  Fashion, People, Effort

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• More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive

  Neal Gabler

  Democracy, May, Balanced

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• Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

  Thomas Nashe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Queens

  1592 'A Litany in Time of Plague'.

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up. They are not real. We play at them. We develop traditional masculine or feminine traits by being indoctrinated, not because we are biologically programmed to behave in those ways.

  Julie Bindel

  Real, Play, Squares

  "Gender benders, beware" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.

  Alex Pacheco

  Games, Enemy, Fair Game

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• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Done, Singers

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• If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

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• I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth.
  Not the biased truth,
  Not the liest truth,
  But the highest truth.

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Allegiance

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• I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Towns, Tourists

  Letter of Archibald Butt to Clara F. Butt on June 01, 1909. "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt" by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.

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• It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Rights, Race

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• The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.

  Harry S. Truman

  Should Have, Land, America

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The gains we made in the United States that have made our country great have, in large part, been made over the opposition of major corporations. On nearly every issue, from fair labor standards, to the minimum wage, to environmental standards, to standards for a safe workplace, corporations have fought against them every step of the way.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Issues, Political

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• I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever do to true religion except by mistake! As to getting the law of the land to touch our religion, we earnestly cry, `Hands off! Leave us alone.' Your Sunday bills and all other forms of the act-of-Parliment religion seem to me to be all wrong. Give us a fair field and no favor, and our faith has no cause to fear. Christ wants no help from Caesar.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Mistake, Sunday

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• People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value.

  Scott Boras

  Crush, Team, Reality

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• All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fun, Real, Innovation

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• Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.

  Grover Cleveland

  Country, Presidential, Watches

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flower, Moving, Eye

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.420, Penguin

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• For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Eye, Grace

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 297

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