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.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Old age is the verdict of life.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

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.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Technology favors horrible people.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

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

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

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

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

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.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

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.

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

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

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