Favor

Famous quotes containing the word favor:

“The victorious party found favor with the gods, the vanquished with Cato.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

“My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected they will have conferred a favor upon me, for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)