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Quotes about Favor
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.
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau
Favors Quotes and Sayings
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
Favorable Quotes and Sayings
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
Man Quotes and Sayings
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand 
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Afraid? Me? A man who's licked
his weight in wild caterpillars?
Afraid? You bet I'm afraid!
- Groucho Marx
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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