Fair and foolish. [ Proverb ]
New things are fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fat, fair, and forty. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Soft and fair goes far. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fair words please fools. [ Proverb ]
Fair faces need no paint. [ Proverb ]
Never was bad woman fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The smoke follows the fair. [ Proverb ]
A fair face and a foul heart. [ Proverb ]
Roses fair on thorns do grow:
And they tell me even so
Sorrows into virtues grow. [ Dr. W. Smith ]
Nothing is fair or good alone. [ Emerson ]
Fair words fill not the belly. [ Proverb ]
You came a day after the fair. [ Proverb ]
Plant a white rose at my feet,
Or a lily fair and sweet,
With the humble mignonette
And the blue-eyed violet. [ Julia C. R. Dorr, Earth to Earth ]
A fair face is half a portion. [ Proverb ]
A blustering night, a fair day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A fair face and a foul bargain. [ Proverb ]
Buy at a fair, but sell at home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Faint heart never won fair lady. [ Proverb ]
A fair booty makes many a thief. [ Proverb ]
You fish fair, and catch a frog. [ Proverb ]
Fair words never break a bone,
Foul words have broke many a one. [ Proverb ]
Thy fair hair my heart enchained. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
In fair weather prepare for foul. [ Proverb ]
Glory is the fair child of peril. [ Smollett ]
Goats are not sold at every fair. [ Proverb ]
How near to good is what is fair! [ Ben Jonson ]
No love is foul, nor prison fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In the fair tale is foul falsity. [ Proverb ]
A fair face may hide a foul heart. [ Proverb ]
Fair and softly goes far in a day. [ Proverb ]
Of fair things the autumn is fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fair and foolish, black and proud,
Long and lazy, little and loud. [ Proverb ]
When you see fair hair, be pitiful. [ George Eliot ]
He has a fair forehead to graff on. [ Proverb ]
A good reputation is a fair estate. [ Proverb ]
A foul morn may turn to a fair day. [ Proverb ]
Fair words gladden so many a heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
O how beautiful is morning!
How the sunbeams strike the daisies
And the kingcups fill the meadow
Like a golden-shielded army
Marching to the uplands fair. [ D. M. Mulock ]
Fair language grates not the tongue. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fair words make me look to my purse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A fair death honours the whole life. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Those laughing orbs, that borrow
From azure skies the light they wear.
Are like heaven - no sorrow
Can float over hues so fair. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
None but the brave deserves the fair. [ Dryden ]
The matchless Ganymede, divinely fair. [ Homer ]
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. [ Proverb ]
Lay her in the earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring! [ William Shakespeare ]
Under fair words have a care of fraud. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall.
And most divinely fair. [ Tennyson ]
And let us mind, faint heart never wan
A lady fair. [ Burns ]
Some are atheists only in fair weather. [ Proverb ]
To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. [ Scott ]
Too fair to worship, too divine to love. [ Milman ]
All are not friends that speak one fair. [ Proverb ]
I cannot believe you, you speak so fair. [ Proverb ]
Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,
(Green leaves upon her golden hair!),
Green grasses through the yellow sheaves
Of autumn corn are not more fair. [ Oscar Wilde ]
My inheritance how wide and fair!
Time is my seed-field, to Time I'm heir. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Mild arch of promise! on the evening-sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the other melting. [ Southey ]
The face that cannot smile is never fair. [ Martial ]
To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
No - all that's worth a wish - a thought.
Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
Let nobler views engage thy mind. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Friendship is not to be bought at a fair. [ Proverb ]
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare. [ Pope ]
A fair gamester among rooks must be beat. [ Proverb ]
The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air.
That Time's hoar wings grow young therein.
And they who walk there are most fair. [ Francis Thomson ]
Better a fair pair of heels than a halter. [ Proverb ]
Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night. [ William Shakespeare ]
Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. [ William Shakespeare ]
In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]
This moment is a flower too fair and brief. [ Moore ]
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. [ Publius Syrus ]
Tomorrow; never yet was born
In earth's dull atmosphere a thing so fair
Never tripped, with footsteps light as air,
So glad a vision over the hills of morn. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
Oh! roses and lilies are fair to see;
But the wild bluebell is the flower for me. [ Louisa A. Meredith ]
You have brought your hogs to a fair market. [ Proverb ]
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare,
The bud of the rose as sweet as it's bonnie. [ Hogg ]
He injures a fair lady that beholds her not. [ Proverb ]
O, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem.
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem,
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. [ William Shakespeare ]
I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
I have sworn thee fair. [ William Shakespeare ]
One fair day in winter makes not birds merry. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies!
Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue!
The weeping messenger of grace from heaven! [ Brown ]
The rose saith in the dewy morn,
I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]
Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit. [ Proverb ]
Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend;
The conscious moon, through every distant age.
Has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall
On contemplation's eye her purging ray. [ Young ]
O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth! [ Dana ]
Him only pleasure leads and peace attends,
Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends,
Whose means are fair and spotless as his ends. [ Wordsworth ]
The eastern gate, all fiery red,
Opening on Neptune, with fair blessed beams,
Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams. [ William Shakespeare ]
Such harmony in motion, speech and air,
That without fairness, she was more than fair. [ Crabbe ]
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Dew-drops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun insists on gladness; but at night,
When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. [ Bailey ]
There spring the wild-flowers - fair as can be. [ Eliza Cook ]
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,
Be the skies above or dark or fair,
There is ever a song that our hearts may hear -
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear -
There is ever a song somewhere. [ James Whitcomb Riley ]
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fair eldest child of love, thou spotless night!
Empress of silence, and the queen of sleep;
Who, with thy black cheek's pure complexion,
Mak'st lovers' eyes enamoured of thy beauty. [ Marlowe ]
Oh! the pain of pains
Is when the fair one, whom our soul is fond of,
Gives transport, and receives it from another. [ Young ]
That trial is not fair where affection is judge. [ Proverb ]
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,
While proudly rising over the azure realm,
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,
Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. [ Gray ]
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows. [ Gray ]
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass. [ William Shakespeare ]
Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady never could win. [ Spenser ]
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]
Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair looks. [ Proverb ]
Twas he that ranged the words at random flung,
Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. [ Firdousi ]
A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch
Is God's fair bride, and maidens' souls are such. [ Decker ]
Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
In the soft light of these serenest skies;
From the broad highland region, black with pines,
Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise.
Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold
In rosy flushes on the virgin gold. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
There bloomed the strawberry of the wilderness;
The trembling eyebright showed her sapphire blue,
The thyme her purple, like the blush of Even;
And if the breath of some to no caress
Invited, forth they peeped so fair to view.
All kinds alike seemed favorites of heaven. [ Wordsworth ]
Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field.
Still on their dinner turn -
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. [ Joanna Baillie ]
Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use.
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. [ William Shakespeare ]
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. [ William Shakespeare ]
At last the golden oriental gate
Of greatest heaven began to open fair;
And Phoebus, fresh as bridegroom to his mate,
Came dancing forth shaking his dewy hair,
And hurled his glistering beams through gloomy air. [ Spenser ]
And her face so fair
Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. [ Byron ]
Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. [ Luther ]
Men speak of the fair as things went with them there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fair flowers are not left standing long by the wayside. [ German Proverb ]
Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. [ Jeremy Collier ]
A day will come when fair dealing will be found a jewel. [ Proverb ]
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can stay a fair leisure. [ Proverb ]
It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is necessary. [ Proverb ]
Contentment will make a cottage look as fair as a palace. [ W. Secker ]
O, happy youth! for whom thy fate reserved so fair a bride. [ Dryden ]
Under the fair words of a bad man there lurks some treachery. [ Phaedr ]
Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. [ Robert Browning ]
You ought to obtain what you ask, as you only ask what is fair. [ Plaut ]
The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. [ N. P. Willis ]
Music is a pleasing accomplishment; let the fair learn to sing. [ Ovid ]
Sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. [ Proverb ]
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foul. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person. [ Virgil ]
A fair wife without a fortune is a fine house without furniture. [ Proverb ]
A good faculty in lying is now-a-days a fair step to preferment. [ Proverb ]
It is fair that he who begs to be forgiven should in turn forgive. [ Horace ]
Those fair ideas to my aid I'll call, and emulate my great original. [ Dryden ]
A good pilot and a fair wind are the requisites for a prosperous voyage. [ Demophilus ]
Govern the lips as they were palace doors, the king within;
Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words which from that presence win. [ Sir Edwin Arnold ]
Dreams cannot picture a world so fair; sorrow and death may not enter there. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
The morrow, fair with purple beams, dispersed the shadows of the misty night. [ Spenser ]
Diligence alone is a good patrimony, but negligence will waste a fair estate. [ Proverb ]
He that will not sail till he have a full fair wind, will lose many a voyage. [ Proverb ]
And the spring arose on the garden fair like the spirit of Love felt everywhere. [ Shelley ]
Friends must be preserved with good deeds, and enemies reclaimed with fair words. [ Severus ]
What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace? [ Young ]
He, like Amphion, makes those quarries leap into fair figures from a confused heap. [ Waller ]
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. [ Bryant ]
Friend, beware of fair maidens! When their tenderness begins, our servitude is near. [ Victor Hugo ]
A fair woman shall not only command without authority, but persuade without speaking. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. [ Cowper ]
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone. Can nature show as fair? [ Byron ]
O Eloquence! thou violated fair, how thou art wooed and won to either bed of right or wrong! [ Havard ]
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. [ L'Estrange ]
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
To make love when one is young and fair is a venial sin: it is a mortal sin when one is old and ugly. [ De Bernis ]
Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation. [ Sterne ]
Nature has said to woman: Be fair if thou canst, be virtuous if thou wilt; but, considerate, thou must be. [ Beaumarchais ]
It is a blessing to be fair, yet such a blessing as if the soul answer not to the face, may lead to a curse. [ Bishop Hall ]
We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of the fair and ruddy countenance of David. [ John Ruskin ]
It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysics, to behold again the fair face of Truth. [ Carlyle ]
He whose life seems fair, if all his errors and follies were articled against him, would seem vicious and miserable. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
A fair complexion is a disgrace in a sailor; he ought to be tanned, from the spray of the sea and the rays of the sun. [ Ovid ]
Oh, fair undress, best dress! It checks no vein, but every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, and heightens ease with grace. [ Thomson ]
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair or manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
All the gazers on the skies read not in fair heaven's story expresser truth or truer glory than they might in her bright eyes. [ Ben Jonson ]
Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. [ Thomas Fuller ]
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]
O, the eye's light is a noble gift of heaven! All beings live from light; each fair created thing. The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. [ Schiller ]
Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily; and it will fast wear away. [ John Foster ]
Up, up, fair bride! and call thy stars from out their several boxes; take thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make thyself a constellation of them all. [ Donne ]
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised? [ Carlyle ]
The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree. [ W. B. Clulow ]
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. [ Addison ]
And now he shook away the snow of time from the winter-green of memory, and beheld the fair years of his childhood uncovered, fresh, green, and balmy, standing afar off before him. [ Richter ]
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. [ Adam Clarke ]
Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland, odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves. [ Countess of Blessington ]
A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints. [ Pascal ]
Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of. [ Zimmermann ]
A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. [ Fielding ]
Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]
Who can describe the transports of a heart truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration? [ Fordyce ]
Wit throws a single ray, separated from the rest, - red, yellow, blue, or any intermediate shade, - upon an object; never white light; that is the province of wisdom. We get beautiful effects from wit, - all the prismatic colors, - but never the object as it is in fair daylight. [ Holmes ]
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]
Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]
If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]
Joy wholly from without, is false, precarious, and short. From without it may be gathered; but, like gathered flowers, though fair, and sweet for a season, it must soon wither, and become offensive. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet and fair, it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal. [ Young ]
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]
Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]