“As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.””

“The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.”

“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”

“It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.”

“It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'. I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.”

“My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.”

“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. ”

“I'm pretty sure my mom would have remembered giving birth to twins and then losing one somewhere along the way. When”

“There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!”

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