Fairly Quotes

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde

Winning, Play, Cards

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Men, Long

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle

Time, Someone, May

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, May, Strange

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley

Great, Nothing, Tried

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
Orison Swett Marden

Good, Best, Wrong

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes

Sense, Common, Matters

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes

Nothing, Sense, Common

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
Euripides

God, Men, Violence

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich

Fact, Ignorant, Afford

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
Conrad Black

Hope, Mind, Opinion

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
Vivien Leigh

Beauty, Great, Care

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
Alice Walker

Life, Writing, Living

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
Henry Louis Gates

Great, Justice, Racism

The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.
Steve Martin

Judge, Community, Felt

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
Christopher Hitchens

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Daniel Defoe

Two, Drink, Families

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
David Bowie

Work, Time, Long

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
David Bowie

Time, Lonely, Person

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
Noam Chomsky

War, Others, Won

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
John B. S. Haldane

Far, Company, Boy

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
John Cleese

Country, Anyone, Press

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Live, Place, Seem

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
Jimmy Carter

Leadership, Done, Down

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
Terry Pratchett

Men, True, Find

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
Brian Eno

Music, Before, Whether

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
Henry George

Men, Million, Dollars

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
Jim Henson

School, Small, College

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
Mark Zuckerberg

Nice, Used, Press

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