(136 quotes found)
“When you lend, have the borrower sign a paper before witnesses”
Muhammad
“Out of my lean and low abilityI'll lend you something.”
William Shakespeare
“When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.”
“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.”
“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.”
Andre Breton
“To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand”
Edward Everett Hale
“Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.”
Lewis H. Lapham
“'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue”
Thomas Campbell
“A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little further on.”
John Milton
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain”
Mark Twain