Fairs Quotes - Page 34

• To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
  Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
  Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
  Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
  In process of the seasons have I seen,
  Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
  Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Eye

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• In friendship's fragrant garden,
  There are flowers of every hue.
  Each with its own fair beauty
  And its gift of joy for you.
  Friendship's Garden
  
  If love were what the rose is,
  And I were like the leaf,
  Our lives would grow together
  In sad or singing weather.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Flower, Garden, Weather

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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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 pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Drinking

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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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 by her breath her beauties to renew.

  Robert Greene

  Flower, Wind, Purple

  Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson (188?). “The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Johnson”

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• Yet, O thou beautiful rose!
  Queen rose so fair and sweet.
  What were lover or crown to thee,
  without the clay at thy feet?

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Beautiful, Sweet, Queens

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• Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?

  Pete Dye

  Golf, Games, Fair Game

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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 may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

  Shannon Miller

  Teacher, Sibling, Gymnastics

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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 lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

  John Keats

  Book, Wine, Doors

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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 fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Rain, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

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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 West or in the jungles of the East.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.405, Penguin

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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. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.

  Cesar Chavez

  Memories, Commitment, People

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.78, Penguin

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• It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

  Clarence Day

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Rights

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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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 fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Fighting, Swings, Hands

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• He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Summer, Wise, Strong

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Philosophical, Civilization, Play

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Order, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.139

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• I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Flower, Fall

  1601 Orsino.Twelfth Night, act 2, sc.4, l.35-8.

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• I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Success, Air, Hands

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• My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Angel, Past, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.235

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• I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Horse, Funny Relationship, Wife

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• A good leader must be fair.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Leader, Good Leader

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.

  Lady Gaga

  Gay, Government, Hopeful

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• Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.92, Jerome K. Jerome

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