A Quote by John Churton Collins

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

John Churton Collins

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Accept Favor Friend

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John Churton Collins
English - Critic
March 26, 1848 - September 25, 1908

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Publilius Syrus

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

Anthony Trollope

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

Mark Caine

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Jean de la Bruyere

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

Phyllis Schlafly

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Saint Augustine

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.

Tom Coburn

The fact that we're all hyphenating our names suggests that we are afraid of being assimilated. I was talking on the BBC recently, and this woman introduced me as being "in favor of assimilation." I said, "I'm not in favor of assimilation." I am no more in favor of assimilation than I am in favor of the Pacific Ocean. Assimilation is not something to oppose or favor - it just happens.

Richard Rodriguez

Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship. ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.