Fair Witness

Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or witness:

“I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, ‘till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an Author.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:16.

The ninth commandment.