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When we bless one another we shouldn't expect returned favours because blessings have no strings attached and they hold no sorrow. — Euginia Herlihy

Chance favours the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur

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

Fortune favours the bold. — Virgil

Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. — Alexander Pope

A dream of favours, a favourable dream. They know how they believe that they believe that they know. Wherefore they wail. — James Joyce

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. — Seneca The Younger

I never came into life with any favours or privileges. — Ken Livingstone

The wind gives and it takes. You wait, I believe it favours you. — Tami Egonu

Only those who respond accordingly, life favours. — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours. — Philip Massinger

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. — Publilius Syrus

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. — Adolf Hitler

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. — Gloria Steinem

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves. — Karen Joy Fowler

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours. — Robert Walpole

Chance favours the trained mind. — Louis Pasteur

New levels bring new devils, more favours means more haters — Bishop T. D. Jakes

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. — Jacques Delors

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. — Heywood Broun

Men like honesty when it favours them. — Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. — Seneca The Younger

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

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. — Horace

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you. — Maurice Duffy

Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late! — Charlotte Bronte

How much less is the sense of obligation in those
who receive favours than in those who grant them. Somerset Maugham — W. Somerset Maugham

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude. — Sophocles

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Away from courting me - " Gabriel expanded. "I'm sorry to have made you run so fast, my dear," he said, with a grateful sense of favours — Thomas Hardy

The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them! — Agatha Christie

Those whom the Lord favours not with the direction of his Spirit, he, by a righteous judgement, consigns to the agency of Satan. — John Calvin

Fortune favours the audacious. — Desiderius Erasmus

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight. — Francis Quarles

Life favours those who constantly change. — Sunday Adelaja

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals — Howard Nemerov

He who thinks new favours will cause great personages to forget old injuries deceives himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. — Louis Pasteur

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

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

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours. — Tony Fernandes

Caution favours no-one in battle, — Anthony Ryan

Pasteur, L. 1854. Chance favours only the prepared mind. — John M. Ziman

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold. — E.A. Bucchianeri

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are. — Fiona Wood

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours. — Terry Eagleton

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

Remember it all favours complexity — Vasexandros

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life only favours those who understand the demand of stretch and give it fully. — Sunday Adelaja

We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her. — Ivan Michurin

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

A true friend
repays loyalty with loyalty,
honesty with honesty
and favours with favours. — Theodore Volgoff

Men are never attached to you by favours. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Fortune favours the brave — Jeffrey Archer

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

After rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen. — Ryan Kwanten

Chance favours the bold. — Jessica Shirvington

I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap. — Calvin Harris