"Lent, which seems so long, is short at…" — Italian Proverb
"Lent, which seems so long, is short at other men's tables."
More Lent Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid… — 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… — 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… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Never point a finger where you never lent a hand. — Robert Breault