Famous quotes containing the words short, term and/or loan:
“Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best
God! but the interest!”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906)
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