“Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”
Source: The Course of Honor
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”
Source: The Course of Honor
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
Source: Essais (1595), Book III, Chapter X. Of Managing the Will. End of First Paragraph.
“It's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.”
England Speaks http://books.google.com/books?id=bCMrAAAAIAAJ&q=%22It's+better+to+give+than+to+lend+and+it+costs+about+the+same%22&pg=PA328#v=onepage (1935)
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”