Lend Quotes

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

Rain, Place, Weather

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne

Yourself, Give, Others

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck

Car, Anyone, Birth

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti

Love, Nature, Women

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope

Money, Place, Prove

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Enough, Whom

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling

Nature, Yourself, Trouble

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France

Books, Library, Left

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Soul, Earth, Heaven

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

Experience, Children, Parents

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.
Kim Kardashian

Put, Face, Name

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb

Men, Best, Human

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
Jeanette Winterson

Time, Heart, Give

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates

Good, Prayer, While

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Elizabeth I

Children, Parents, Nothing

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais

Virtue, Heroic, Owe

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Book, Write, Themselves

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
Georg Buchner

Strong, Through, Small

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
Loretta Lynn

Book, Old, Keep

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
William Dunbar

God, Tomorrow, Humble

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
Muhammad Yunus

Money, Poor, Almost

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.
Evan Davis

Wonder, Potential, Effect

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.
Jeffrey Kluger

Today, Tomorrow, Idea

I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.
Cat Cora

Time, Food, End

Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.
Florence Welch

Down, Turn, Dress

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
Emily Blunt

Age, School, Jobs

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
Orhan Pamuk

Political, Find, Challenge

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.
Robert Shea

Focus, Rather, Goes

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
Muhammad Yunus

Money, Cannot, Poor

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale

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