Famous quotes containing the words favor and/or year:
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)