All fair in love and war.
Francis Edward Smedley
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All is fair in love and war.
PROVERB All's fair in love and war.
FRANCIS EDWARD SMEDLEY All's fair in love and war.
AMERICAN PROVERB Everything is Fair in Love, War and Fashion.
REISS FIELD But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many...
DAVID LYNCH All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
CATE CAMPBELL All's fair in love and war-what a contemptible lie! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN All is fair in love and golf.
PROVERB All is fair in love and elections.
MUHAMMED HAIDER All's fair in love and purchasing.
EMILY OSTER All policies allowed in war and love
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He wo...
JESSE VENTURA Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave a...
PETER KREEFT Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve i...
DESHAWN STEVENSON By the way, I love you.”
“That’s why we're here.
STEPHENIE MEYER I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the la...
JOHNNY DEPP All's fair in love and marketing.
JACK TROUT Todo es justo en el amor y las carreras.
All is fair in love and racing.
FELIX SABATES I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up o...
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE I dare say there has never been an assemblage of so many distinguished Francis Marion and Revolution...
BEN ZEIGLER Speak to me of love,
said St Francis to
the almond tree,
and the tree blossomed.
NICHOLAS KAZANTZAKIS And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thril...
STEPHENIE MEYER The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no ma...
STEPHENIE MEYER It is impossible to love and to be wise.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, ...
ANGUS MCGILL The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been,
The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges...
MICHAEL DRAYTON If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me . . .
JAMIE MCGUIRE She’s in love with me, too, you know."
Edward didn’t answer.
Jacob sighed. “But she ...
STEPHENIE MEYER Sometimes we humans do not want to accept love for what it is. Love demands, transforms, and most of...
JERLINE It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.
H.G. WELLS Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of lig...
STEPHENIE MEYER It's late,' he said again, murmuring, almost crooning now, his voice smoother than silk. 'Sleep, my ...
STEPHENIE MEYER Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...
GEORGE ORWELL There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my futur...
VERA BRITTAIN Procrastination can wait for Tomorrrow.
MICHELLE MARIE War can´t kill love. Love can kill war.
HELENE LAGERBERG War can´t kill love. Love can kill war.
HELENE LAGERBERG Anything can happen in love, war and South Inidan movies.
JENNIFER BERNARD They're in love. Fuck the war.
THOMAS PYNCHON Todo es justo en el amor y las carreras.All is fair in love and racing.
FELIX SABATES The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vit...
EMMA GOLDMAN We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye...
GARY F EVANS... If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would...
BELVA LOCKWOOD If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would a...
BELVA LOCKWOOD My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
CHARLES V What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and...
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and...
ROBERT E. LEE Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Look after my heart - I've left it with you.
STEPHENIE MEYER You are my life now.
STEPHENIE MEYER He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It woul...
STEPHENIE MEYER Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.
STEPHENIE MEYER What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M. No love is foule, nor prison fair.
GEORGE HERBERT You've got to take the rough with the smooth. It's like love and hate, war and peace, all that bollo...
IAN WRIGHT Love is a war between two hearts but in this exciting war you die many times......
PRABHA Love it. We're thrilled. The people are right down the middle. We're going to get a fair shot, and t...
CHRIS SEEGER There's a similar story with St. Francis and the wolf. The wolf was terrorizing a village, eating ki...
BETTY STREETT All their lovers' talk began with the phrase "After the war".
After the war, when we're married...
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES With a blonde bombshell (Francis) in the picture, there could be no love affair between her and anyb...
LESLIE NIELSEN My problem was with the process and not Jim Francis.
MARK SINATRO No wonder Edward was such a crazy driver," I muttered. "Who's Edward?" Elyssa asked. "You know, from...
JOHN CORWIN Suck on this, Edward.
DANI SMITH In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.
GEORGE HERBERT I must tell you this, Maggie. Your letters are my lifeline. Your threat to stop them terrified me. N...
THERESA BRESLIN God's image is the married couple, a man and woman, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. ...
POPE FRANCIS Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.
KATE DICAMILLO Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.
STEPHENIE MEYER Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And ...
KATE DICAMILLO Love and war are two different battlefields.
PIERCE BROWN Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
MILMAN Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
HEBBEL At half past one in the morning, three sides of Union Square were in flames. The fourth side, where ...
JACK LONDON Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Love is a conquest! Love is war!
MARISSA MEYER I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a ...
ALEX EBERT Edward Teller's genius has produced monumental contributions to physics, ... This professorship cons...
LARRY VANDERHOEF Those folks love to see the guys in uniform and they love to exchange war stories from the military ...
DAWN RUTH All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- ...
FRANCIS BACON Francis is back in the 20 and we'll see how he goes during the course of the week.
DANIEL ANDERSON The settlement is, I believe, in all the circumstances a fair and just one,
EDGAR BRONFMAN Francis asked if we could bring up our medical brigade in January of 2005.
RICHARD SEIVERT She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her...
FRANK L. DESILVA In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGARET VALOIS It is my hope that Pope Francis realizes his time is better spent focusing on matters like religious...
PAUL GOSAR All in all, the media was very fair to us. I was surprised and very happy about it.
RON LUCE We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.
ALEX CAMPBELL Love is war to those who do not live for the highest good of all living things.
MEG NEZAJ Mike Love Not War.
MIKE LOVE Make love, not war
AMERICAN PROVERB Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.
VANCE JOY Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.
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mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
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To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
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[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
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QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
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FRANCIS QUARLES Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Wickedness is its own punishment.
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