quotations about lending
Who ventures to lend loses money and friend.
DUTCH PROVERB
Cursed be the taker of usury, the giver of usury, the writer of usury, and the witness of usury, for they are all equal.
SAHIHU
Tradition
Don't lend money to friends -- it causes amnesia.
ANONYMOUS
He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
We're not saying you should never lend people money, but if you're interested in getting your money back, you can't just expect everyone to automatically pay you back.... If you're the forgetful sort and can't keep track of the money people owe you, you can bet that they're going to conveniently be just as "forgetful".
JOANNE POH
"6 ways being forgetful causes Singaporeans to waste tons of money", Asia One, May 13, 2016
All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.
HENRY HAZLITT
Economics in One Lesson
Lending money to a friend often results in a two-fold loss; both money and friend are gone forever.
W. H. MILBURN
attributed, Day's Collacon
A loan though old is not a gift.
HUNGARIAN PROVERB
Lend to your friend, and ask payment of your enemy.
GRÜN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Son, never loan money to a church. As soon as you start to close in on them, everybody thinks you're a heel.
FRANK BUTLER & FRANK CAVETT
Going My Way
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed of barren metal of his friend?
But lend it rather to thine enemy;
Who, if he break, thou mayest with better face
Exact the penalty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
Let's kill two birds with one loan!
GOODMAN ACE
Easy Aces
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
BIBLE
Proverbs 22:7
For since there must be borrowing and lending, and men are so hard of heart, as they will not lend freely, usury must be permitted. Some others, have made suspicious and cunning propositions of banks, discovery of men's estates, and other inventions. But few have spoken of usury usefully. It is good to set before us, the incommodities and commodities of usury, that the good, may be either weighed out or culled out; and warily to provide, that while we make forth to that which is better, we meet not with that which is worse.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Usury", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
MARK TWAIN
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
We don't like to make loans. We prefer to make deposits.
EDMOND SAFRA
attributed, Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra
To borrow scarce is better than to beg;
As lending, lending upon interest,
Scarce better is than stealing.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING
Nathan the Wise
Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet