1.
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.
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
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
10.
Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.
Charles Spurgeon
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
19.
I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.
Jacques Chirac
20.
Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.
Peter Ustinov
21.
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher
22.
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.
I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
James Callaghan
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.
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
Anthony Eden
29.
We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear
Peter Weiss
30.
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
31.
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
Plautus
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
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.
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
37.
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
38.
The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.
Joel Osteen
39.
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
40.
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
Frank Wedekind
41.
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
David Bailey
42.
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
43.
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
44.
Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
Mahatma Gandhi
45.
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
46.
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
47.
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
Arthur Helps
48.
Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
Benny Hill
50.
The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.
John Motson