Fairs Quotes - Page 39

• It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

  E. B. White

  Love, Horse, Fighting

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• Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

  Myrtle Reed

  Taken, Men, Effort

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• I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Editing

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• The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eye, Men, Common Sense

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Home, Cutting, Boys

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• A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wages

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.273, Lulu.com

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• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Men, Weather

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

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• Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mean, Breathing Space, History

  Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions as givens. Unfortunately, like most propaganda, it doesn’t play fair with its intended audience. At times, while watching it, I felt like I was getting Malcolm McDowell’s treatment in Clockwork Orange: eyes pried wide open while getting bombarded with quick-cut atrocity photos.

  Jay Kinney

  Powerful, Eye, Cutting

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• Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

  Greg Koukl

  Use Of Knowledge, Method, Diplomatic

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• I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it’s a free country.

  Olivia Culpo

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Miss USA 2012: Miss Rhode Island Takes the Crown" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 4, 2012.

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• One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

  Alan Bean

  Great Things, Universe

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• Someday, one of your friends is gonna get divorced, it's gonna happen, and they're gonna tell you. Don't go, 'ohhhh I'm sorry.' That's a stupid thing to say. First of all you're making 'em feel bad for being really happy, which isn't fair. And second of all: divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true, because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. It's really that simple.

  Louis C. K.

  Sorry, Stupid, Divorce

  "Please Stop Saying You’re So Sorry" by Carly Israel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.

  Ron Perlman

  Cancer, Heart, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

  Patty Duke

  Mother, Kind, Savior

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.123, Bantam

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• I really think everything is fair game.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Games, Comedy

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• A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

  Sean Bean

  Men, Kind Man, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Wind, Bumpy Roads, Today

  FaceBook post by Jean-Claude Van Damme from Aug 29, 2015

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• There are teams that are fair-haired, and those that aren't so fair-haired. Some teams are named Smith, some Grabowski. We're Grabowskis!

  Mike Ditka

  Team

  "SUPER BOWL XLI / OLD & NEW / Bears, Colts boast long histories, but fresh faces add zest to Super Bowl" by Nancy Gay, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 2007.

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• Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Knights, Order

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.

  Jim Davidson

  School, Athletic, Department

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• Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'

  Jay Leno

  News, Foxes, Told You So

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• Astronomers have discovered a planet that is twice the size of earth and made of diamonds. President Obama says the planet may be inhabited by aliens not paying their fair share.

  Jay Leno

  President, Size, Earth

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• San Francisco hosted the first medical marijuana job fair. The keynote speech was titled, 'Jobs and How to Avoid Getting One.'

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Marijuana, San Francisco

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