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
Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”
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.
David Dreman (2012). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
Charles Kingsley (1889). “Works”
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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
Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.23, Pan Macmillan
"The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.
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 “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.230