Lend Quotes

“If you lend you either lose the money or gain an enemy.”

“Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.”

“If you lend the present, it will never be returned.”

“I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.”

“Lend an ear to your inner voice and intuition”

“Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.”

“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.”

“But that’s what family is, isn't it? It’s traditions and trinkets that only matter when we hold them up against the mirrors of our lives, lending them meaning, lending them weight, until they become heavy enough to endure without us. We create the past in the things that we choose to remember about it. We turn everything into stories, and those stories matter because we say that they do. It’s all a wheel, and ours are the hands that turn it.”

“When we feel fractured, redundant and nonessential, only bouncing back from lowliness may brighten up the story of our life. In this endeavor, “otherness” might lend a helping hand in making the road less parching. (“He did not know that she knew”)”