Best Favor Sayings
1115 Favor quotes by 820 unique authors
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
— Mark Twain
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While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether…
— Theobald Smith
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,…
— George Washington
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The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo…
— Richard Dawkins
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Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of…
— Pope John Paul II
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I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions,…
— David Korten
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Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency…
— Charles Koch
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There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
— James Madison
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By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into…
— Strom Thurmond
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Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.
— Unknown Author
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I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
— Claes Oldenburg
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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole…
— Thomas a Kempis
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You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you…
— William Ruckelshaus
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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even…
— Paulo Coelho
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The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.
— Edward Burne-Jones
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When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu…
— Nouman Ali Khan
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Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
— B. B. Warfield
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Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
— H. L. Mencken
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The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of…
— John Gorrie
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The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are…
— A. V. Dicey
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Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...…
— Unknown Author
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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.
— Joel Osteen
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I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate…
— Stephen Colbert
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