Lending Quotes

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.

Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Ending lending is beginning winning.

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.