Fair Quotes
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I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I'll get arrested. Whatever happens to me, fair enough. I think about the next one I'm going to do. But I just want people to laugh.
J. M. Roberts
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As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
Ernst Toller
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I earned this, fair and square." We'll, maybe it hadn't been fair. And maybe it hadn't been precisely square. Still, she'd earned it legally. Legally and... rectangularly. That would have to do.
Courtney Milan
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
Nikolai Gogol
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
Patrick Ness
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I always had a fair share of hits and flops.
Ram Gopal Varma
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Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee.
Martin Luther
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It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.
Janet Napolitano
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I think what distinguishes this fair is the fact that everybody is involved -- city fathers, township trustees and the city workers even.
J. M. Roberts
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Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.
Harvey Mackay
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After completing our own due diligence, we voted both offers down unanimously, ... fair.
Mallory Factor
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
Bram Stoker
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.
Hippocrates
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A bevy of fair women.
John Milton
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It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
Sophocles
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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.
Ed Droste
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I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
Lisa Kudrow
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The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.
Scott Adams
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.
Esther Meynell