Lend

Famous quotes containing the word lend:

“There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, “If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

““I’d like to taste,” he said, “the inside of your mouth. God, how I’d like to be a goblin-sized Gulliver and explore that cave.”
“I can lend you my tongue,” she said and did.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)