Fair Quotes

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. (George Orwell)
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. View quote
Robert Frost
Life is not fair; get used to it. View quote
Bill Gates
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. View quote
Max Born
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. View quote
William Goldman
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. View quote
José Martí
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. View quote
Edmund Waller
A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy. View quote
George Soros
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. (Oscar Wilde)
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. View quote
Warren Buffett
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. View quote
Karl Marx
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. View quote
Edmund Waller
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! View quote
Edmund Waller
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. View quote
Groucho Marx
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor? (Bill Watterson)
When the candles are out all women are fair. View quote
Plutarch
Fair and softly goes far. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. View quote
Walter Scott
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. View quote
Arthur Miller