FAVOR

Related Subjects: Gifts, Influence, Kindness, Service

1. Regarding the innumerable applicants for favors, the President [Lincoln] made the remark that "There are too many pigs for the teats." This is said to have been uttered by the ladies, who blushingly hid their faces behind their handkerchiefs.—L. P. CLARK, Lincoln
   

2. I am a great foe of favouritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Lord Jim: Author's Note
   

3. To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.—DEMOSTHENES, De Corona

4. One good turn deserves another.—Proverb

5. A favour ill-placed is great waste.—Proverb

6. You roll my log, and I will roll yours.—Seneca

7. Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.—THORNTON WILDER, The Woman of Andros