Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

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.
Rick Larsen

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.
Dick Morris

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

Fortune favors the audacious.
Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune favors the brave.
Terence

Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace

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.
Baltasar Gracian

Fortune, that favors fools.
Ben Jonson

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

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

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones

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.
James Woods

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

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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.
Claudio Hummes

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