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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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