(573 quotes found)
“To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature”
William Shakespeare
“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion”
W. R. Inge
“How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.”
Robert Burns
“Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.”
Charles de Gaulle
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca
“The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air”
Rabindranath Tagore
“If you can't return a favor, pass it on”
Louise Brown
“Do me a favor during the rainy season, and I shall do the same for you during the dry season”
African Proverb
“No wind favors him who has no destined port.”
Michel de Montaigne