Lent Quotes

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Time, May

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust

Today, Tomorrow, Fashion

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

Soul, Earth, Heaven

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau

Friendship, God, Best

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
Ethel Merman

Time, Give, Else

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
Beth Ditto

Mom, Dad, Happy

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.
Frank Butler

Christmas, Behind

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
Judy Holliday

Knowledge, Past, American

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock

Music, Jazz, Borrowed

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.
Sylvia Kristel

Heart, Hand, Taken

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
Les Claypool

Cool, Whole, Name

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.
Dudley North

Money, Government, Law

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