Sayings about Favors
Forget the favors you have given; remember those received. ~ Chinese Proverb
To receive a favor is to sell one’s liberty. ~ Japanese Proverbs
To ask a favor from a miser is like trying to make a hole in water. ~ Armenian Proverbs
He who accepts favors, pawns his freedom. ~ Slovak Proverbs
One finds little ingratitude so long as one is in a position to grant favors. ~ French Proverbs
The plant God favors will grow even without rain. ~ African Proverb
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid. ~ Latin Proverbs
He who asks the fewest favors is the best received. ~ Spanish Proverbs
A favor to come is better than a hundred received. ~ Italian Proverbs
Never ask a favor of someone till they have had their dinner. ~ Traditional Proverb
Do me a favor during the rainy season, and I shall do the same for you during the dry season. ~ African Proverb
The first favor is a favor, the second an obligation. ~ Chinese Proverb
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Quotations about Favors
To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. ~ Author Unknown
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. ~ Eric Hoffer
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. ~ Mark Twain
Fortune favors the prepared mind. ~ Louis Pasteur
Venus favors the bold. ~ Ovid
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. ~ William Hazlitt
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others. ~ Aristotle
Every time you do a favor for a constituent, you make nine enemies and one ingrate. ~ James Michael Curley
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. ~ Ausonius
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. ~ Robert Burns
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just. ~ Author Unknown
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. ~ Thucydides
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all. ~ Publilius Syrus
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. ~ William Hazlitt
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ~ Horace
Fortune favors the audacious. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself. ~ P. T. Barnum
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. ~ Publilius Syrus
Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ~ Mark Twain
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ~ Publilius Syrus
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. ~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
Great cooking favors the prepared hands. ~ Jacques Pepin
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Fortune favors the brave. ~ Terence
