Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.
The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation as a sovereign state on a global level. It also protected the interests of foreign investment in countries of the global South even when these were exploitative, and deprived countries of the benefits of resources situated within their territories.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music
I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
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.
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.
I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.
After a Christmas comes a Lent.