Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. - George Santayana
Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking? - Terry Eagleton
The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty. - Kino no Tabi
Distance lends enchantment to the view. - Mark Twain
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. - Arthur Miller
Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde
Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. - Stephen Richards
You may not get it right the first time...life happens,people meddle,you frustrate each other and in those circumstances,you drift apart...When you get a second chance and the universe smiles at you,destiny lends a hand and fate brings you together again,Do not mess it up - Dru Edmund Kucherera
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain