Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition and... cooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As to what we call the masses, and common men;Mthere are no common men. All men are at last of a size; and true art is only possib...le, on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere. Fair play, and an open field, and freshest laurels to all who have won them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman stat...e of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sad...istic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the u...npaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This play holds the season's record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an ...odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nat...ure. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In poker there is, of course, no attempt to disguise the aggressive element. Poker is a fighting game, a game in which each player... tries to get the better of every other player and does so by fair means or foul so long as he obeys the rules of the game. He may bluff or lie about his own strength, the object of the game being either to frighten the other players into believing that he has greater strength or else to prove it. Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!... The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses. But, for their virtue only is their show. They live unwooed and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distills your truthLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »