Lending Quotes

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

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

“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.”

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

“Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.”

“Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions.”

“Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven.”