Top 100 Lend'st Quotes
#1. O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
Michael Drayton
#2. With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.
Louis Sachar
#3. 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
#4. The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?
Jonathan Kozol
#5. Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.
Ted Nicholas
#6. They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
Muhammad Yunus
#7. It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
Pearl S. Buck
#8. Never in my life did I lend the unfortunate Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (for he is unfortunate now, in any case) the sum of three thousand roubles today, or any other money, never, never! I swear to it by all that is holy in our world. Khokhlakov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel like working with smaller units feels more natural to the way I write poems.
Anna Journey
#10. In changing times, we should all lend our support to the independent retailers. Without independent retailers, many of the biggest names in music would still be undiscovered. They break new artists and movements. We all know the industry is changing, but we can't forget where we came from.
Gorilla Zoe
#11. 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
#12. There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.
Jean De La Fontaine
#13. True leaders serve the people. They have no power but what we lend, and what I give in good faith can be taken away." "The wealthy own my world." "Then it is broken.
Penelope Fletcher
#14. Dogmatism is thus the dogmatic procedure of pure reason without previous criticism of its own powers, and in opposing this procedure, we must not be supposed to lend any countenance to that loquacious shallowness which arrogates to itself the name of popularity, nor
Immanuel Kant
#15. The highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
Victor Hugo
#16. I think ... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
Tom Stoppard
#17. High school's actually kind of boring. It's a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really there's a lot more under the surface.
Kiersten White
#18. Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
Lord Byron
#19. 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
#20. The best way we can help our children welcome challenges is to encourage them to work just outside their comfort zone, stand by to lend a hand when needed, and model enthusiasm for challenging tasks.
Madeline Levine
#21. You loved me. We were besties. I lend you my eye shadow. But someday all you'll be is someone I used to know. - Punk
Penelope Douglas
#22. Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. Forster
#23. For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.
Matthew Modine
#24. At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'
Conan O'Brien
#26. A You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
Anonymous
#28. Youth must its ignorant impulse lend--
Age finds place in the rear.
All wars are boyish and are fought by boys
Herman Melville
#29. Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
Eugenio Maria De Hostos
#30. Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?
Donna Lynn Hope
#32. When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses - how exactly are you going to make money?
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#33. I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.
Olivia Newton-John
#35. If you don't own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one. And if you own two homes, buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy one.
John Paulson
#36. Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
Curt Flood
#37. I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer.
Kate Winslet
#38. Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
Ben Bernanke
#39. My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.
Michel De Montaigne
#40. To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#41. The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend my money to governments who want me to pay them. I am going to go into the stock market where I can get positive returns!"
Mohamed El-Erian
#42. 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.
John Charles Polanyi
#43. Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all
But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall
Lend me your eyes I can change what you see
But your soul you must keep, totally free
Mumford & Sons
#44. The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
Benjamin Graham
#45. We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member countries are taking notice and willing to lend a helping hand.
Marty Natalegawa
#46. Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
Audre Lorde
#47. Friends, romans, countrymen lend me your ears i want to burry ceasar but not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them the good is often entered their their bones if it were so then let it be with ceasar.
Gaius Iulius Caesar
#48. I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.
Alison Bechdel
Leah Price
#49. I hate to lend a book I love ... it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me ...
L.M. Montgomery
#50. If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.
Thomas Adams
#51. I resisted the urge to sit and stare at Lend while he slept; when he dreamed, instead of his eyes moving behind his eyelids, his whole glamour shifted appearances like a stop-motion film. It was fascinating and wildly entertaining sometimes - also a bit freaky considering I showed up constantly.
Kiersten White
#52. If I had to create a god, I would lend him a "slow understanding": a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
Roland Barthes
#53. To lend a book is an incitement to theft.
A Reader on Reading p. 281
Alberto Manguel
#54. 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
#55. I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to always lend a helping hand to anyone in need, and I hope to raise my daughter to be a very kind and charitable person.
Rebecca Gayheart
#56. When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
Adam Beach
#57. Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.
Tom Hodgkinson
#58. A mask you ask? Optional I find!
Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#60. All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place.
Roger Bacon
#61. Lend's dad, two werewolves, and a vampire. It was like the setup to a bad joke or something. A doctor, two werewolves, and a vampire walk into a bar. "What'll you have?" the bartender asks. "We were thinking him," the vampire answers, eyeing the doctor.
Okay, jokes weren't my strong point.
Kiersten White
#62. A woman can lend a man the strength to conquer a kingdom, and bring him to his knees with one breath.
Brandy Nacole
#63. Mat, on the other hand, seemed to have unlimited faith in me. Maybe he'd lend me some if I asked nicely.
Tracy Lane
#64. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
#65. As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
Oliver Goldsmith
#66. I opened the door and Lend smiled. 'They look better on you.'
'Wow, they must look just awful on you then.' I smiled back.
Kiersten White
#67. The people that lend you money basically give you an answer based on the risk that they are willing to take. But just because a bank is willing to take a particular risk doesn't mean that that is the right amount for me to spend.
Dan Ariely
#68. [Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.
Ron Paul
#69. In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#70. If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
Mortimer J. Adler
#71. Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.
Sam Levenson
#72. All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
Mark Twain
#73. Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
Horace Walpole
#74. We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
Albert Camus
#75. The thing about magic is everyone wants to own some, most so badly they're willing to beg and borrow and steal it from whomever they can. But the truth is unless you own your own magic you'll be destroyed by it; whether you lend its power to others or use what isn't yours doesn't matter.
Tiffany FitzHenry
#76. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#77. There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
Kate Christensen
#78. A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.
Gabrielle Dubois
#79. O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God.
Hart Crane
#80. I ain't scared to lend a hand
I ain't scared to clench it either
Mie Hansson
#81. My love has saved me. It wraps strong arms around me when I cry with despair;it gives me the routine of a working week to lend vicarious structure to my shapeless days. It brings me daily laughter, a reason to keep washing...and it slices me open with guilt.
Anna Lyndsey
#82. (where the more distant phrasing can lend a veneer of respectability to the otherwise prurient-seeming habit of a naturalist spying on other creatures' intimate lives).
Marie Brennan
#83. A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
George Jean Nathan
#84. Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
Robert Herrick
#85. False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.
Francis Quarles
#86. Set up rules for when you will "give" not lend money. Never lend. My people know that I'll help with college. I'll help if they lose they job thu no fault of their own.
Michelle Singletary
#88. Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!" he said aloud. "Why don't they come and lend a hand?" Lo
J.R.R. Tolkien
#89. There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.
Cary Grant
#90. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
William Shakespeare
#91. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Star of the east the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Reginald Heber
#92. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
Edgard Varese
#93. As in play, it rests on a common willingness of the participants in conversation to lend themselves to the emergence of something else, the Sache or subject matter which comes to presence and presentation in conversation.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#94. Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.
Terry Teachout
#95. Have more than thou showest, speak less than though knowest, lend less than thou owest, ride more than though goest, learn more than thou trowest, set less than thou throwest.
William Shakespeare
#96. All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.
Rod Stewart
#97. Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#98. No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.
Ben Bernanke
#99. I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
Laura San Giacomo
#100. The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.
Desiderius Erasmus