To have the power to forgive,
Is empire and prerogative,
And 'tis in crowns a nobler gem,
To grant a pardon than condemn. [ Butler ]

Grant me honest fame or grant me none. [ Pope ]

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude;
But grant me still a friend in my retreat.
Whom I may whisper - solitude is sweet. [ Cowper ]

A civil denial is better than a rude grant. [ Proverb ]

What art thou? Have not I
An arm as big as thine? A heart as big?
Thy words, I grant, ate bigger, for I wear not
My dagger in my mouth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Still all great souls still make their own content;
We to ourselves may all our wishes grant;
For, nothing coveting, we nothing want. [ Dryden ]

God grant me to contend with those that understand me. [ Proverb ]

How can He grant you what you do not desire to receive? [ St. Augustine ]

To these tears we grant him life, and pity him besides. [ Virgil ]

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. [ Whittier ]

God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. [ Spanish Proverb ]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. [ Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer ]

It is more commendable to deny upon occasion than to grant upon none. [ Proverb ]

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [ Horace ]

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]