Quotes About Favors

when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government.

by knowing someone's needs and doing them a favor, you own them. You will be able to get them to do a lot more for you, further down the line, when you need them to.

isn't it sometimes more expensive to accept favours than it is to buy them?" He

Favours come to us from gods.

As for asking favors or handouts, no.' But you'll take them from a stranger.' He looked me straight in the eye. 'The stranger can keep going and pretend not to hear.

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.

The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.

and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something in return. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.