H. L. Mencken Quotes

You save my face this afternoon and I’ll save your face tomorrow.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

It is not polite to receive a favor without returning it.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

I have no favors to pay back.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.

Politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you.

He who makes another powerful ruins himself.

A favor to come is better than a hundred received.

One good turn deserves another.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

I think Trump is someone who appreciates and connects with people who hold their own and are strong individuals. I think he can smell weakness, and if you show him weakness, he exploits it, and he doesn't respect you.

There's certain people that you owe it to, for the things they've done for you.

I don't owe nobody nothing.

Shake the hand that feeds you.