Quotes on Favors

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Author: Ausonius

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Author: Amelia Barr

Fortune favors the audacious.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Author: Eric Hoffer

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Author: Horace

Fortune, that favors fools.

Author: Ben Jonson

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

Author: Hans Kung

Venus favors the bold.

Author: Ovid

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Author: Louis Pasteur

It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors.

Author: Shannyn Sossamon

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Author: Publilius Syrus

Fortune favors the brave.

Author: Terence

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Author: Thucydides

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

Author: Wietse Venema