Lend Quotes

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

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

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

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

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

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

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

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

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

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.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

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.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Subsidize... or lend.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.