Famous quotes containing the word lend:
“Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“Peter is poor, said noble Paul,
And I have always been his friend:
And, though my means to give are small,
At least I can afford to lend.
How few, in this cold age of greed,
Do good, except on selfish grounds!
But I can feel for Peters need,
And I WILL LEND HIM FIFTY POUNDS!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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