In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our…

Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the…

— Thucydides

I realize I am different. When I'm in a particular mood, I embrace it. I realize this is at the cost of acquiring friends…

— Anonymous

Although I am still in favour of a National Government in these difficult times, and shall probably be found in the great majority of…

— Harold MacMillan

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

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

— Publilius Syrus

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by…

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

“When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Not the fastest always win the race.

— Unkown

I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

— Kurt Rambis

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

— Aristotle

What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of…

— Chris Hani

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness,…

— Anonymous

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