Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

Calvin Trillin

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune favors the audacious.

Anonymous Toast

May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Elia Kazan

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

Barbara Tuchman

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Alexei Sayle

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Horst Koehler

Poles freed not just themselves, they launched a process which radiates until today, ... The fact that Poland threw off the yoke of communism led to the unification of Europe and a united Germany.

John Linder

When called upon, the United States has come to the defense of Europe twice during World Wars I and II, and has opposed Communism around the world.

Vaclav Klaus

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

Louie Gohmert

Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

Michigan State

I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists.

Charles Bukowski

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Edsger Dijkstra

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.