Top 100 Quotes About Favours
#1. It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
George Santayana
#2. Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained space where feedback from the environment allows the emergence of natural self-regulation.
James E. Lovelock
#3. Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.
Elizabeth Aston
#4. The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, Lord! let me be quiet!
Philip Neri
#5. Pasteur, L. 1854. Chance favours only the prepared mind.
John M. Ziman
#6. I don't go and ask my friends for favours. They are real, true, incredible amazing human beings with good hearts. They have evolved as human beings. I have evolved as a human being and I have let this wall down that I had.
Shane Bunting
#7. The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
Agatha Christie
#8. I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.
Calvin Harris
#9. You need to fully believe in yourself and your capabilities for others to believe in you. Destiny favours those who believe that things will work out rather than those who give up in despair!
Anuranjita Kumar
#11. When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor ...
Niccolo Machiavelli
#12. False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.
Francis Quarles
#13. Away from courting me - " Gabriel expanded. "I'm sorry to have made you run so fast, my dear," he said, with a grateful sense of favours
Thomas Hardy
#14. If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.
Clive Anderson
#17. Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.
Aleister Crowley
#18. There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching.
Michael Longley
#19. Education and study, and the favours of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.
Plutarch
#20. To be resigned when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
Nathaniel Cotton
#21. O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
Benjamin Franklin
#22. Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun
#23. Fortune favours the bold.
Virgil
#24. A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
Gloria Steinem
#26. I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.
Richard Cobden
#27. Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca The Younger
#28. Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#31. Can you do me a few favours? Show her off to the world. Shout it from the rooftops. Take her out on dates. She loves to dance - even though she's really bad at it. Make other couples jealous. Be her golden. Because I promise that she'll be yours.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#32. 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.
William Bartram
#33. Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
P.G. Wodehouse
#34. Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.
Richard Branson
#35. I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.
Ryan Kwanten
#36. The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.
Adolf Hitler
#37. Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
Eric Maisel
#38. Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.
Stephen King
#39. The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
Jason Calacanis
#40. When we bless one another we shouldn't expect returned favours because blessings have no strings attached and they hold no sorrow.
Euginia Herlihy
#41. Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
Sloane Crosley
#44. A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.
John Stuart Mill
#46. All that is required of us, in our new sexual ethic, is that we have sex in a way that favours us more than it favours our diseases.
Richard Summerbell
#47. What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
Andre Maurois
#48. What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#49. Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Louis Pasteur
#50. Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.
Andrew Nikiforuk
#51. If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.
Richard Dawkins
#52. It is very seldom," the young man said at last, "that dragons ask to do men favours."
"But it is very common," said the dragon, "for cats to play with mice before they kill them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.
Joanna Baillie
#54. Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
Terry Eagleton
#55. Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.
Aeschylus
#56. We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.
Ivan Michurin
#57. We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves.
Karen Joy Fowler
#58. Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.
Lev Artsimovich
#60. Life only favours those who understand the demand of stretch and give it fully.
Sunday Adelaja
#61. I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.
Richard Cobden
#62. Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Alexander Pope
#63. With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.
Idina Menzel
#64. I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Philip Massinger
#65. People who plead with you for favours
May eventually prove to be great flatterers.
Your friends are only those
Who all the time cheerfully support
Your heart's aspiration-flames.
Sri Chinmoy
#66. Those whom the Lord favours not with the direction of his Spirit, he, by a righteous judgement, consigns to the agency of Satan.
John Calvin
#67. God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!
Joss Sheldon
#69. A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.
Maurice Duffy
#70. Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.
Aravind Adiga
#71. For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!
Epictetus
#72. Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
Publilius Syrus
#73. 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.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#75. Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Horace
#76. I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.
Paul McGann
#77. God is the only one who listens to her ... she is the prototype of the devout woman who perseveres in prayer, convinced that it will be heard ... How many favours each of us could tell of if we recalled with gratitude the gifts we have received in order to praise God for them!
University Of Navarra
#79. The wind gives and it takes. You wait, I believe it favours you.
Tami Egonu
#80. I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#81. Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.
Preity Zinta
#82. A true friend
repays loyalty with loyalty,
honesty with honesty
and favours with favours.
Theodore Volgoff
#84. A dream of favours, a favourable dream. They know how they believe that they believe that they know. Wherefore they wail.
James Joyce
#85. A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
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Andrzej Sapkowski
#86. To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
Barbara Smoker
#87. Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.
Tony Fernandes
#89. It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.
Margaret Thatcher
#91. How much less is the sense of obligation in those
who receive favours than in those who grant them. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
#93. Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
Jacques Delors
#94. No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
Abraham Lincoln
#95. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
William Congreve
#96. You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.
Fiona Wood
#97. Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals
Howard Nemerov
#99. The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
Robert Walpole
#100. Faith should mean something. Gods . . . should stand for something, not chop and change with every breeze that blows. Gods should be worshipped for the truths they represent, not what party favours they might dispense.-Razor Eddie the Punk God of the Straight Razor
Simon R. Green
