Friday, 19 April 2013

Lending - Quotes

A loan though old is not a gift. - Hungarian Proverb

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown. - English Proverb

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity. - Plato

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own; when you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness; if you begin to press still further, either you must part with that which you have entrusted, or else you must lose that friend. - Plautus

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money. - Benjamin Franklin

It is a great commendation to the lender to lend to those who deserve well. - W. Leeton

Lend to the needy. - R. Eleazar

Lending money to a friend often results in a two-fold loss; both money and friend are gone forever. - W. H. Milburn

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow. - James Ellis

That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets. - P. G. Wodehouse

Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

When a man lends money to the wicked, he justly gets paid for his interest. - Axionicus

Who lends recovers not; of if he recovers, not much; or if much, a mortal enemy. - Benito Feyjoo

Who lends to a friend loses doubly. - French Proverb

Who ventures to lend loses money and friend. - Dutch Proverb

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