“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
“No fairer law in all the land
Than that death-dealers die by what they've planned.”
— Ovid, book Ars amatoria
Book I, lines 655–656 (tr. Len Krisak)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
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“Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman”
Ann Brashares The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 4: Unstoppable
“Death aims with fouler spite
At fairer marks.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Divine Poems (ed. 1669). Compare: "Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011.
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Behold this sea, that sapphire sky!
Where nature does so much for man,
Shall man not set his standard high,
And hold some higher, holier plan?
Some loftier plan than ever planned
By outworn book of outworn land?Where God has done so much for man,
Shall man for God do aught at all?
The soul that feeds on books alone —
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,—
A soul that has not learned to read.</p
George Wither (1588–1667) English poet
The Shepherd's Resolution; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?", Sir Walter Raleigh, Poem.
