“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting
“Is she not passing fair?”
Silvia, Act IV, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“If she undervalue me,
What care I how fair she be?”
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Poem reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If she be not so to me, / What care I how fair she be?", George Wither, The Shepherd's Resolution.
“Congress passed a Fair Labor Standards Act, commonly called the Wages and Hours Bill. That Act”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards (1938)
Context: After many requests on my part the Congress passed a Fair Labor Standards Act, commonly called the Wages and Hours Bill. That Act — applying to products in interstate commerce-ends child labor, sets a floor below wages and a ceiling over hours of labor. Except perhaps for the Social Security Act, it is the most far-reaching, far-sighted program for the benefit of workers ever adopted here or in any other country. Without question it starts us toward a better standard of living and increases purchasing power to buy the products of farm and factory.
John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) American poet
"The Way of the World".
Variant: A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But their sires disputed about the Mass,
And so it might not be.
George Wither (1588–1667) English poet
I Loved a Lass; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.
George Wither (1588–1667) English poet
The Shepherd's Resolution; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?", Sir Walter Raleigh, Poem.
Leonard Mlodinow book The Drunkard's Walk
Source: The Drunkard's Walk, Chapter 1, Peering Through The Eyepiece Of Randomness, p. 13
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
George Wither, "The Lover's Resolution" http://www.bartleby.com/101/237.html. <br class="br">Misattributed
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Golden Violet - The Queen of Cyprus
The Golden Violet (1827)