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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -- William Goldman
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. -- Virgil
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. -- Clara Schumann
That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer. -- John Prescott
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. -- Christopher Marlowe
Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia. -- Kevin Rudd
The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society. -- Mike Lowry
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top. -- Jessica Savitch
We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation. -- Charles Kennedy
To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly. -- Mike Huckabee
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. -- Francis Bacon
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. -- J. K. Rowling
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. -- Timothy Noah
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength. -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. -- Albert Einstein
The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy. -- Kit Bond
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt. -- Alex Steffen
What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after. -- Derek Bok
It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges. -- James Lind
Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place. -- Nicola Sturgeon
I went to a predominantly white school, and I was the only black girl. I can remember thinking, 'I don't want to be as dark as I am - I want to be a little fairer.' I didn't want to be me. -- Kelly Rowland
We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives. -- Nick Clegg
Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy. -- Mike Crapo
Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. -- Jon Meacham
Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society. -- Richard Rogers
The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful one. Socialism is about who gets the goods and how. Socialism objects to markets because markets allocate resources in ways socialists believe to be unfair on both counts: both the who and the how. -- Virginia Postrel
Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks. -- Francis Quarles
Even virtue is fairer in a fair body. -- Virgil
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil. -- Aeschylus
There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit. -- Will Rogers
Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. -- Hartley Coleridge
Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions -- John Stossel
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman -- Ann Brashares
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III. -- Naguib Mahfouz
What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation. -- Kevin Brady
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal. -- Moliere
Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other. -- Henry Vaughan
Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs -- Silius Italicus
Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's." "Well you can't say fairer than that then -- Tommy Cooper
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun. -- William Shakespeare
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Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve. -- Ed Miliband
There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people. -- Boris Johnson
I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine. -- Novala Takemoto
Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices. -- Vince Cable
There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer. -- Michael Gove
I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it. -- Chuck Robb
And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here. -- Henry David Thoreau
Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work. -- Hillary Clinton
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange . -- Bob Brown
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. -- James Russell Lowell
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician. -- G. H. Hardy
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier. -- Paulo Coelho
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven. -- Oscar Wilde
As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. -- Wilfred Owen
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory. -- Henry David Thoreau
We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education. -- Chris Hayes
Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate. -- Nathalia Crane
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light. -- George Lillo
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that. -- Stevie Wonder
We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child. -- Paul Eluard
Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code. -- Ricky Gervais
The bottom line is we need a tax code that is more simpler, that is more fairer, that gets rid of the special carve-outs, the special lobbyist loopholes. That's the direction we need to go. -- Erik Paulsen
It's the best proposal that we ought to have because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family friendly. And instead, we've had a Congress that spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop. -- Mike Huckabee

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