Top 100 Life Fair Quotes
#1. Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.
Andrew Klavan
#3. Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God's way of making life fair.
David Baldacci
#4. Don't try to make life fair, instead, be on the side where life is extra good.
Sarvesh Jain
#5. Life is not fair ... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
David Brin
#6. Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
Jeff Lindsay
#7. People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
Patrice O'Neal
#8. life is not fair and love is not enough, but it is the only thing worth pursueing
John Gorka
#9. God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.
Mark Buchanan
#10. How do you measure someone's life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they've touched, or by the width of a hand? None of it seemed fair. None of it seemed like enough.
Yvonne Woon
#11. Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.
H.G.Wells
#12. Life isn't fair. Now be a good girl and come for your big bad vampire.
Tina Folsom
#13. Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet.- Dageus
Karen Marie Moning
#14. Life may not be fair, but when you have someone to believe in, life can be managed, and sometimes, even miraculous.
Julia Scheeres
#15. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. Life is like poker. Fair, random and risky.
As your crappy hand can win the game without it being seen, and even change mid-game.
-Alan Hernandez
Alan Hernandez
#17. All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.
Garrison Keillor
#18. Hi," he says.
Just hearing that one word makes me feel as though I have gone back in time, to a part of my life when things made sense, when the world was fair.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#19. I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.
Stella Young
#20. I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.
Michael Hutchence
#21. Life isn't fair, but living? Living is heaven. Living is a gift. Every gift is different - every path is different - for some reason this is ours, and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can stop crying and start living.
Rachel Van Dyken
#22. It wasn't fair, he thought peevishly. "Who said life was fair?" his father had said to him a hundred times. He had said the same himself to his own daughter. ("It's not fair, Daddy.") Parents were miserable buggers. It SHOULD be fair. It should be paradise.
Kate Atkinson
#23. The world is a dangerous place ( ... ) There will always be blurred boundaries. There are plenty of good bad guys and bad good guys. Life's not clear and it's seldom fair ( ... ) I don't want our child growing up under the illusion that it is. Shit happens.
Peter James
#24. Life is fair, truth is faith
NGR
#25. There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.
Frederick Lenz
#26. I wish you fair winds and following sea." And I explain that this is our way of wishing a person the best of luck and a long, good journey through life.
Nick Popaditch
#28. Life is not fair get used to used to it
Bill Gates
#29. Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.
Sarah Dunn
#30. Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't ... I don't think it's something anybody knows.
L.J.Smith
#31. Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good - they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of gray - and shades of gray are also a part of life.
Stephen King
#32. Christ is a well of life, but who knoweth how deep it is to the bottom? This soul of ours hath love, and cannot but love some fair one; and O, what a fair One, what an only One, what an excellent, lovely, ravishing One is Jesus.
Samuel Rutherford
#33. I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.
Robert Boswell
#34. lads who were to fight, and perhaps fall, on the fields of France and Flanders, Gallipoli and Palestine, were still roguish schoolboys with a fair life in prospect before
L.M. Montgomery
#35. If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.
Michael Treanor
#36. If life was fair, Elvis would still be alive and all the impersonators dead.
Johnny Carson
#37. Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega?
-No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
Isabel Allende
#38. There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.
Billy Graham
#39. On a day - alack the day! -
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air
William Shakespeare
#40. That's not fair!"
"Life's not fair, Kaspar. You know that. You had a slave for - how long?"
"Twelve years."
"Did you treat him 'fairly'? No, of course not. You beat him when you were in a bad mood, because it made you feel better, and when you felt better you beat him some more.
Clive Barker
#41. I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
Pauline Hanson
#42. 'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.
Jeremy Jackson
#43. Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Horace
#44. Behold, when thy face is made bare, he that loved thee shall hate;
Thy face shall be no more fair at the fall of thy fate
For thy life shall fall as a leaf and be shed as the rain;
And the veil of thine head shall be grief, and the crown shall be pain.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#45. You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
J. Michael Straczynski
#46. The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Charles Baudelaire
#47. It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.
Andrew H. Knoll
#48. Most of life isn't anything. Most of life is just the passing of time, and we're even asleep for a fair chunk of that.
Nathan Filer
#49. Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
Heinrich Heine
#50. Fair?" said the Sea Queen. She moved forward. Om felt her all around him.
"There's no such thing," she said. "Life's like a beach. And then you die.
Terry Pratchett
#51. It was a nice compromise, something I'd never experienced before in my life. With Cooter I did the compromising, I didnt know what it was like to have a fair dose of what I wanted before I gave in to what someone else wanted.
Kristen Ashley
#52. Who said life was fair? Indeed. Who?
Anonymous
#53. What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
#54. Life is one sick joke after another, I'm discovering. Because it hardly seems fair that it should hurt so much to finally get exactly what I've been wishing for.
Amy Engel
#55. When someone complains that life isn't fair,
the universe smiles and asks, "Is he a liar?
Debasish Mridha
#56. If you want to write ... keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.
Madeleine L'Engle
#57. It's not fair." "Life isn't fair," Jaypaw
Erin Hunter
#58. Martin Bashir persuaded me to trust him, that his would be an honest and fair portrayal of my life and told me that he was the man that turned Dianas life around.
Michael Jackson
#59. Mattie rolled his eyes. "And I've have my fair share of ugly in my life, so I'm kind of used to it".
"You better not be referring to me, sack-sucker".
Lila Rose
#60. From experience, I can tell you that if you go around trying to figure out what's fair in life or whether you deserve something or not, that's a rabbit hole that is hard to climb out of.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#61. And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
John Donne
#62. The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and fresh produce are in short supply, hygiene is basic, and a fair amount of the crew's time is spent just on maintaining and repairing the craft.
Chris Hadfield
#63. Every Fey warrior and shei'dalin born in the Fading Lands learns very early in life that, like it or not - fair or not - there will be many days when they must decide between a bad choice and a worse one. Today is such a day.
C.L. Wilson
#64. Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.
M. Russell Ballard
#65. I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.
Trip Adler
#66. ,m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be 'set fair' that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.
John Bude
#67. I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.
Dafydd Ap Gwilym
#68. Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.
Robert Breault
#69. The next time you say 'Life isn't fair' remember that 40% of the world lives on less than $2/day and does not eat every day. How does your 'not fair' compare to theirs? - Tom Cunningham
Tom Cunningham
#70. The state fair was all very well, but it shouldn't be the last thing you saw in your life. At first you thought of people like Eloise and Frank and Lillian as runaways, and then, after a bit, you knew they were really scouts.
Jane Smiley
#71. Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
Victoria Wood
#72. The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.
Katie Couric
#73. Being taken down a few pegs is humbling. Knowing that life is not easy or fair is humbling. Receiving a great honor - well, that would be called an honor.
Meghan Daum
#74. Sometimes my life felt so small. And I had to wonder why those of us who were given small lives, still had to feel pain so big. It hardly seemed fair.
Mia Sheridan
#75. The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.
Drake
#76. He stops pacing and turns toward me. You won't wait for me. I won't let you give up what should be the best year of your life. I had to grow up way too fast; I'm not taking that away from you, too. It wouldn't be fair. I don't want you to wait for me, Layken.
Colleen Hoover
#77. To Hope
When by my solitary hearth I sit,
And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.
John Keats
#78. Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
Og Mandino
#79. Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.
Mary Jo Putney
#80. The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. To think about fairness, think of economic life as a game - a serious game. All ideas about fairness can be divided into two broad groups. They are:
- It isn't fair if the result isn't fair.
- It isn't fair if the rules aren't fair.
Robert S. Pindyck
#82. The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
D. A. Carson
#84. The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.
Lance Henriksen
#85. It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.
George Osborne
#86. I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either.
Meg Donohue
#87. I'll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be fair, the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided.
Barbara Kingsolver
#88. There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.
Daniel Keys Moran
#89. Sometimes you have to give in to life- it's only fair.
Emma Abdullah
#90. Life is rough for everyone ... Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.
Ann Landers
#91. We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
E.W. Howe
#92. Fair enough ... No inhaling battery acid," I smirk. "We can't breathe battery
acid, can we?
M.A. George
#93. Being a good person and fair person is very important in life, I think.
Guler Sabanci
#94. Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
Ann Brashares
#95. And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks
Tom Robbins
#96. Caring is our curse. If we don't care, we can't get hurt. But if we didn't care, the world would be a dark place to live. We have to deal with it and realize life isn't fair. People are taken out of our lives, and others live who don't deserve to continue.
Mandi Lynn
#97. I'm being fair, it was the best kiss of my life- a kiss that finds all your seams and pulls them apart, stitch by detail stitch.
Autumn Doughton
#98. All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.
Don Siegelman
#99. He knew, though, that there was no such thing as fair in life. Existence had no agenda. Life simply existed. It was up to them to fight for life to be worthwhile and good if that was what they wanted.
Terry Goodkind
#100. Better to play fair for a life of hate than cheat for a life of love
Holly Bodger
