Favors Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Favors Granted Half Refuse
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
Any favor rendered without appreciation is like being dispossessed of your most priced asset. — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life,… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only… — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so;… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
