Quotes with lends

  • It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
  • Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
  • Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
  • A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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  • Mark Twain A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Age, like distance lends a double charm.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alexander Pope Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Arthur Miller Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Aeschylus God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Betty Ford It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
    The times of my life
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Jan Van Ruysbroeck Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.
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  • Marquis de Sade Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • William Hazlitt One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William Wordsworth t Is distance lends enchantment to the View.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Auguste Rodin There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • William James Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Andre Breton I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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