Lend Quotes

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. (Bob Hope)
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. View quote
Robert Frost
acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. View quote
Charles Lamb
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. View quote
Anatole France
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. (Edward Everett Hale)
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. View quote
Georg Büchner
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
... lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. View quote
Mark Twain
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world. View quote
Samuel Daniel
When it appears that a work has been carried out sumptuously, the owner will be the person to be praised for the great outlay which ha has authorized; when delicately, the master workmen will be approved for his execution; but when proportions and symmetry lend it an imposing effect, then the glory of it will belong to the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. View quote
Ken Mehlman
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. (José Martí)
It's a strange courage you give me ancient star:Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! View quote
William Carlos Williams
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time.The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt. View quote
Paul Craig Roberts
I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha