Quotation Explorer - 'Lend'

One of the greatest disservices you can do to a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. - Jesse H. Jones
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. - Anatole France
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. - Mortimer J. Adler
For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight. - Howard Pyle
acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce
ACQUAINTANCE, n. 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. - Ambrose Bierce
A majority of the people do not actually lend their support to the authority, but just repay the debt to the favour received from her/him. - Anuj Somany
If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for them to be damaged, means castration. - Jean Baudrillard
Don't look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person's soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared. - Shannon L. Alder
Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals. - Stephen King
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. - Kurt Vonnegut
It is better to give than to lend and it costs about the same. - Polish Proverb
If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it. - Mark W. Boyer
Victims support is everybodies responsibility, let's always lend a helping hand. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
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. - Mark Twain
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. - William Shakespeare
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. - William Shakespeare
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. - Hippocrates
Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.'There's a library?''Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable. - Ransom Riggs
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it wasprobably worth it - Anonymous
You must never, at any rate, lend yourself to the wrong, in any form, which you condemn. - Mamur Mustapha
One way at a time I'll try to lend these broken hands of mine give my strength, be my light. - Joe Brooks
Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. - Anatole France
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love? - Donna Lynn Hope
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck
Lets reflect the hopes of the nations under oppression, injustice and brutality. All they see is Unknown suffering Of an empty heart and soul and thus their suffering is unknown. We cannot do everything; but still we can do something. Lend a hand to support the suffering ones. - Auliq Ice
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that`s your nature, but don`t lend it to your neighbors. - Rudyard Kipling
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