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Favors Quotes - Page 13

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

Fanny Fern (1873). “Fanny Fern [pseud.]: A Memorial Volume. Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir”, p.278

Now you [Hillary Clinton] want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can't win that debate.

Donald Trump's speech at the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate hosted by NBC News' anchor Lester Holt at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1, 1922.

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

David Dreman (2012). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

"Persian Letters". Book by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 76, 1721.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.316, Litres

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.230

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

"Obama's Challenge: What Would Lincoln Do?" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2009.