Top 100 Quotes About Fairs
#1. A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.
Paulo Coelho
#4. Meissonier always spent many months researching his subject, finding out, for example, the precise sort of coats or breeches worn at the court of Louis XV, then hunting for them in rag fairs and market stalls or, failing that, having them specially sewn by tailors.
Ross King
#5. Gather knowledge ... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs ... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.
Nita Leland
#6. You must have been tortured by the memory of everything Jack didn't even know to want. Friends, school, grass, swimming, rides at the fair ... " "Why does everyone go on about fairs?" Ma's voice is all hoarse. "When I was a kid I hated fairs." The woman does a little laugh. Ma
Emma Donoghue
#7. There's so much art and it's gotten so flashy. In the global marketplace, having art that's shiny and has neon lights is almost what you need for anyone to notice it in an art fair situation - and art fairs seem to be more and more the only thing there is.
Jim Shaw
#8. Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.
Casey Neistat
#9. Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters
which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator.
Calvin Trillin
#10. When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.
Hunter Hayes
#11. November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
Anita Diament
#12. She wondered if he thought this was all a lark, a game. She'd been to Disney World once. There the fairies were cute and sweet and didn't attempt to kill the visitors. Living here wasn't anything like the human faerie fairs or theme parks.
Terry Spear
#13. When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.
Jane Jacobs
#14. Think it's easy to find girls in climates where their bodies are exposed. Obviously, if you go scouting in Alaska, you're not going to find anybody because they're always covered up. Anywhere there's a beach is great for scouting. And state fairs. I've gone to a lot of state fairs.
Michael Flutie
#15. Sometimes it's hard to eat healthy on the road, especially on the days when we play fairs and festivals! There is lots of fried temptation there, and it's hard for this Southern girl to turn down some good fried food.
Kimberly Schlapman
#16. People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.
Anna Kendrick
#17. I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.
Al Jourgensen
#18. It is always a most delightful moment for me when people contact me via mail or approach me at game fairs and thank me for the many enjoyable hours I have brought them with my games.
Klaus Teuber
#19. Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.
Arne Glimcher
#20. I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
Bruce Springsteen
#21. It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.
Davy Jones
#22. Ryan was a nose away from the tallest cake on display, a six-foot-high chocolate masterpiece Jesse and I had created for this year's fairs. Detailed water nymph's interspersed with insects and toadstools, all sculpted by hand in rich dark chocolate.
Anouska Knight
#23. State fairs are the confluence of the garish and the profound.
Douglas Wissing
#24. Our garage was basically science fair central.
Jeff Bezos
#26. The world is watching, and you better be fair.
Joe Berlinger
#29. Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?
Pete Dye
#30. You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.
William J. Clinton
#31. When you work hard ... it's only fair that you party hard.
Conor Maynard
#32. I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
Dana Reeve
#34. Life is not fair ... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
David Brin
#35. People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
Patrice O'Neal
#36. The world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!
Myrtle Reed
#40. I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy.
Brian Cowen
#42. Don't let anybody ever tell you life's fair. Not as long as I'm in it.
Stephen Graham
#45. I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.
Laozi
#47. If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.
Arnold Palmer
#49. You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.
Paul David Tripp
#51. It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!
S.E. Hinton
#52. It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting.
Margaret Cho
#54. Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
J. Michael Straczynski
#57. If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
John Lewis
#58. Make fair agreements and stick to them
Confucius
#59. Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.
John Gay
#60. I can say with confidence I know a fair bit about LSD.
Dan Rather
#62. Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery
Iceberg Slim
#63. I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.
Lady Sovereign
#65. Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.
Freya Stark
#66. It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.
David F. D'Alessandro
#67. It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
Sophocles
#68. All's fair if you have a really good attorney.
Norm Crosby
#69. Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.
Alex Pacheco
#70. We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.
Martha Stewart
#76. A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
Charlie Munger
#77. Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.
Richard Hovey
#78. Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.
Mario Cuomo
#79. Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.
Pete Dye
#81. And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
John Donne
#82. Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.
Tupac Shakur
#84. When you're hot, it's fair, when you're not, it's foul.
Harold Reynolds
#85. There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
Jack Valenti
#87. It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.
Richard Branson
#88. The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.
Katie Couric
#91. 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
#92. For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
Walter Scott
#93. When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch
#94. To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
George Herbert
#95. Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.
Edward Abbey
#96. None but the brave can live with the fair.
Kin Hubbard
#97. Taking a call girl to an STD fair ... there's a joke here.
Donald Glover
#98. Buy at a faire, but sell at home.
[Buy at a fair, but sell at home.]
George Herbert
#99. You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.
Maya Angelou
#100. The rose saith in the dewy morn,
I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn.
Christina Rossetti
