Some asked how pearls did grow, and where,
Then spoke I to my girle,
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarrelets of pearl. [ Robert Herrick ]

Looks that asked, yet dared not hope relief. [ Rogers ]

I never asked you for wood to heat my own oven with. [ Proverb ]

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. [ Proverb ]

It is time enough to answer questions when they are asked. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time. [ Rabelais ]

It was Dean Swift who ignored the bill of fare, and asked for a bill of the company. [ N. P. Willis ]

When asked what kind of wine he liked to drink he replied, That which belongs to another. [ Diogenes Laertius ]

In life, woman must wait until she is asked to love; as in a salon she waits for an invitation to dance. [ A. Karr ]

Some women boast of having never accorded anything; perhaps it is because they have never been asked anything.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered. Opportunity! [ Moore ]

Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. [ Cicero ]

Tom hinted at his dislike at some trifle his mistress had said; she asked him how he would talk to her after marriage if he talked at this rate before. [ Addison ]

One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men. [ Joubert ]

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, I swallowed it. So sue me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor, he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Turning then to another - And you, I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art? Love, he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]