Favors Quotes
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Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. (Quote by - Michael Chabon)
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites. (Quote by - Hans Kung)
Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process. (Quote by - Wietse Venema)
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. (Quote by - Hans Urs von Balthasar)
Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. (Quote by - Rick Larsen)
Chance favors the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors. (Quote by - Shannyn Sossamon)
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. (Quote by - George Washington)
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping. (Quote by - J. Reuben Clark)
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Men are never attached to you by favours. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. (Quote by - Plautus)
To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. (Quote by - Syrus)
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. (Quote by - Decimus Magnus Ausonius)
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. (Quote by - Barbara Ehrenreich)
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone. (Quote by - Mother Jones)
When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours. (Quote by - Agnes Macphail)
Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors. (Quote by - Esther Dyson)
Fortune, that favors fools. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. (Quote by - Terence)
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty. (Quote by - Claudio Hummes)
To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. (Quote by - Laber)
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. (Quote by - Anita Brookner)
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. (Quote by - Horace)
One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this. (Quote by - ichael Kinsley)
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors. (Quote by - James Woods)
Fortune favors the brave. (Quote by - Terence)
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Fortune favours the bold. (Quote by - Virgil)
Fortune favors the audacious. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. (Quote by - Garrett Hardin )
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. (Quote by - James Lovelock)
I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film. (Quote by - James Woods)
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. (Quote by - Horace Greeley)
Technology favors horrible people. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. (Quote by - Jacques Delors)
Fortune favors the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
Venus favors the bold. (Quote by - Ovid)
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. (Quote by - Pliny the Younger)
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. (Quote by - Heywood Broun)
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. (Quote by - William Bartram)
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. (Quote by - Thucydides)
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
