Favors Quotes - Page 3

• Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Benefits

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• Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Patriotic, Men

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

  John Churton Collins

  Attitude, Claims, Live By

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• The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

  William Hazlitt

  Regret, Doors, Quitting

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1872, Delphi Classics

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• It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sheep, Vegetarianism, Different

  Outspoken Essays: First Series "Patriotism" (1919)

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• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Gratitude, Art, Acceptance

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

  Grantland Rice

  Trust, Exercise, Men

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• I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

  David Gerrold

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• 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

  God, Winning, Ancient

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• I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas.

  Jim Kolbe

  Guests, Students, Workers

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• I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Atheist, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

  Rick Larsen

  Opportunity, Class, Relief

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• The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, Men, Order

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• Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

  Kim Jong Il

  Unity, Politics, Relation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

  Michael Kinsley

  Answers, Subsidies, May

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• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

  Charles Dickens

  Running, Eye, Two

  "Nicholas Nickleby".

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• In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Fields

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• For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

  Michael W. Smith

  Kings, Reason, Given

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• A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

  Islom Karimov

  Fate, Widows And Orphans, People

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• It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

  James Bovard

  Administration, Conservative, Concern

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• A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Double Standard, Needy, Seasons

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• Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

  William Hazlitt

  Kindness, Wish, Ready

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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• Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

  Ron Chernow

  Writing, White, Males

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• If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Fortune, Ifs

  "Septem Sapientium Sententiae Septenis Versibus Explicatae". IV. 6,

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• Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Dismissal

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