(1880 quotes found)
“For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”
John Maynard Keynes
“The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.”
William Howard Taft
“Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.”
Walter F. Mondale
“It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public”
Oscar Wilde
“Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stoodIn brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?”
William Cullen Bryant
“. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.”
William Shakespeare
“Farewell, fair cruelty.”
“The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.”
Conan O'Brien
“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.”
