Quotes with favor

  • When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.
  • I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
  • I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
  • 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.
  • When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.
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  • Carl Sandburg In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • O. S. Hawkins Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bhagat Singh 'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Seneca A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bill Clinton Abigail, do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative action program that produced Colin Powell? Yes or no? Yes or no?
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Anita Brookner 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.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Alan Dundes Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Jean de la Bruyère As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henry Fielding Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Sir Anthony Eden Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure.
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  • Lao-Tzu Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Ovid Fortune and love favor the brave.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • William Hazlitt Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Brian Tracy Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Charles Dickens He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Baltasar Gracian He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Mark Twain Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Claudius Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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