#favors

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#authors #elements-of-style #favors #grammar #happiness

I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play. ↗

— Brett Favre

#continuing #doing #favors #i #know

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax. ↗

— Herman Cain

#because #breaks #business #code #dramatically

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#implemented #means #process #service #single

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. ↗

— Ausonius

#favors #fortune #she #you

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#engaged #favors #find #jam #louis

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. ↗

— Thucydides

#doing #favors #friends #our #secure