Lent Quotes

152 quotes by 115 authors

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a… — Jean Cocteau
The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit… — Harry Vardon
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — Homer
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I… — Thomas Huxley
Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham. — Garrison Keillor
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where… — Pope Benedict XVI
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand. — Robert Breault
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,… — Thomas Jefferson
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall… — J D Salinger
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. — John Ruskin
One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false accusation. Nevertheless, that… — George Soros
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college;… — Sharon Olds
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat… — Pope Benedict XVI
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from… — Jon Krakauer
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange

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