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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle. – Bryant McGill
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. – Horace
One quick and effective solution to the global economic crisis is a global economic and political reset. A global economic reset means that world leaders can come together to agree on debt forgiveness to all nations and restructuring of the global economy. Friends and enemies alike, no exceptions. To be fair to nations with lesser debts, they could be compensated on a ratio basis to enjoy treasury surpluses. A new international trade and reserve currency will probably be established to create a fair global economic system and to implement the reset. This could bring a new era of global prosperity and socioeconomic exchange. This is a much better alternative than currency wars, international hostilities and continuous risks of global socioeconomic shocks. – Med Jones
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. – Publilius Syrus
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. – Homer
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. – George Santayana
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. – William Goldman
I thought Spartans fought with honor. Yet you seek to kill me when I have no way to defend myself? Not fair! – Hermes
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun. – William Shakespeare
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. – Robert Frost
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. – Dante Alighieri
A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul. – Elizabeth Grymeston
A man's work is his dilemma his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world. – Melvin Maddocks
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. – Henry Ward Beecher
All's fair in love and war. – Francis Edwards
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. – George Orwell
Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. – George Eliot
Davis fouls out to third in fair territory. – Jerry Coleman
Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair. – Mario Cuomo
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. – Charles De Gaulle
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. – Laurence J. Peter
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. – Henry Ward Beecher
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. – Jeremy Collier

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