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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods. -- Aeschylus
Fortune favours the bold. -- Virgil
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours. -- Terry Eagleton
I never came into life with any favours or privileges. -- Ken Livingstone
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. -- Gloria Steinem
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. -- Heywood Broun
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours. -- Philip Massinger
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. -- Jacques Delors
I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen. -- Ryan Kwanten
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. -- Alan Greenspan
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
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
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. -- Agnes Macphail
There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie. -- Emily Browning
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
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community. -- Umberto Eco
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
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
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
In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford. -- Susan Cain
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
Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community. -- Edmund White
Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can switch from seller to seller with relative ease. Consumer and shareholder activism is a form of protest that favours the middle classes, an outpouring of the dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie. -- Noreena Hertz
What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours. -- James Lovelock
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Fortune favours the bold. -- Virgil
Fortune favours the audacious. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Fortune favours the brave, dude. -- Pacific Rim
Chance favours the trained mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude. -- Sophocles
Chance favours a prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Love, like Fortune, favours the bold. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Men like honesty when it favours them. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
Men are never attached to you by favours. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
May God illuminate your path with great favours -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. -- Seneca the Younger
I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours. -- Michael Thomas Ford
Any good society survives on a circulation of favours. -- Aravind Adiga
The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours. -- Robert Walpole
You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are. -- Fiona Wood
Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. -- Louis Pasteur
In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours. -- Thucydides
The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. -- Adolf Hitler
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. -- Seneca the Younger
Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours. -- Tony Fernandes
We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her. -- Ivan Michurin
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. -- Publilius Syrus
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them! -- Agatha Christie
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. -- Horace
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. -- Eric Maisel
... how much less is the sense of obligation in thosewho receive favours than in those who grant them." Somerset Maugham -- W. Somerset Maugham
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals -- Howard Nemerov
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight. -- Francis Quarles
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor... -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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
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
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
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
There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest. -- Michael Kenna
I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot. -- Thomas Howes
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
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author. -- Charles Lamb
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
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
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
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
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
But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15,000 people] -- Voltaire
I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by faking orgasms and not calling out guys when we're having unequal experiences." -- Peggy Orenstein
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
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

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