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When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
John Knox

When I consider those who have had the strongest impact on my life, I ponder not of the renowned but of the benevolent.
Authors on Favour Quotes: Horace Seneca the Younger Publilius Syrus George Herbert Marcus Tullius Cicero Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mahatma Gandhi Samuel Johnson William Shakespeare Aristotle Herodotus Louis Pasteur Alan Lewis Daley Thompson Ryan Kwanten John Stuart Mill Vincent Van Gogh Gilbert K. Chesterton Charles Lamb Oscar Wilde Matthew Henry Plautus Stephen King William Henry Maule Frank Wedekind James Burgh David Brewster Max Weber Paulo Coelho Tom Stoppard Jane Austen Aravind Adiga Blaise Pascal
2.
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

3.
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
Queen Elizabeth II

4.
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca the Younger

5.
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
Margaret Thatcher

6.
It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.
Iain Dowie

7.
Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
Samuel Beckett

8.
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9.
Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.
Charles Spurgeon

10.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Seneca the Younger

11.
Fortune favours the bold.
Aristotle

12.
You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.
Fiona Wood

13.
Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.
Paul R. Ehrlich

14.
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
Leo Tolstoy

15.
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
Max Weber

16.
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
Herodotus

17.
Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.
Pope Benedict XVI

18.
I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.
Jacques Chirac

19.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

20.
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher

21.
Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.
Peter Ustinov

22.
I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
James Callaghan

23.
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
Alan Lewis

24.
Fortune favours the audacious.
Desiderius Erasmus

25.
The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.
Adolf Hitler

26.
He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed
Niccolo Machiavelli

27.
Love always causes trouble,
that's true,
but in its favour,
it energizes.
Vincent Van Gogh

28.
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
Plautus

29.
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
Anthony Eden

30.
We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear
Peter Weiss

31.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell

32.
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
Daley Thompson

33.
Chance favours the trained mind.
Louis Pasteur

34.
God and posterity will show me more favour
Lady Jane Grey

35.
This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile
Jacqueline Rayner

36.
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
William Shakespeare

37.
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
Frank Wedekind

38.
What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
Gordon Brown

39.
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.
John Stuart Mill

40.
The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.
Joel Osteen

41.
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
George Bernard Shaw

42.
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
David Bailey

43.
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.
Alexander Hamilton

44.
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

45.
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
Arthur Helps

46.
Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.
Pope Francis

47.
Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
Mahatma Gandhi

48.
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
Alan Bennett

49.
Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
Benny Hill

50.
Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.
E. A. Bucchianeri