When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this.
I do not favor the gag order.
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
I'm not in favor of manned spaceflight, because I don't see that it goes anywhere.
I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
I generally favor permissive abortion laws.
What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.