Top 20 Quotes About Lending Books
#1. People like people who help them like themselves.
Dale Carnegie
#2. We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.
Javier Marias
#5. I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.
Joe Perry
#6. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
Charles Rangel
#7. There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because you will never get it back. ~ James Wood, author of The Book Against God.
Leah Price
#8. For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
Gustave Flaubert
#10. Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.
Joe Queenan
#11. Women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!
Madame De Stael
#12. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?
Renita D'Silva
#13. I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
Garry Disher
#14. Loving this woman was either going to kill him or make his life richer than he'd ever imagined.
Karen Witemeyer
#15. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
Anatole France
#16. I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
Alan Ladd
#17. Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.
Jo Walton
#18. but it also had an odd metallic tang to it that I instantly recognized from when I was Buddy and had a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn't get rid of. The bald man probably had the same taste in his mouth, because it was on his breath.
W. Bruce Cameron
#19. I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.
John Waters
#20. Olivia Lydall was too innocent, too emotional to understand his world. The realization that he was drawn to her was humiliating. It revealed a weakness within him and he resented her for it.
Alexandra Hawkins
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