"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Double Standard Quotes #Favors Quotes #Needy Quotes

“If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.”
“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2015). “From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings”, p.23, University of Alberta
“Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne”
“'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.”
“Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.”
“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”

Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.71, Vintage
“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.”
“Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”

Source : George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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