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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Erma Bombeck

Homeownership tends to lend itself toward a more stable environment.

Jack Murray

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Bob Hope

It does lend itself to a guy who has tremendous quickness and burst. Coles ran it pretty well, too, but sometimes being quick enough to burst by a guy is the difference.

Don Breaux

It's tough for the local banks to lend for longer than five years.

Richard Lark

That often goes a long way toward that company lending a sympathetic ear.

Joe Ridout

A lot of lending is going on in the form of dollars, which is reflecting international interest rates.

Jonathan Pincus

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

Jethro Tull

This is just our way of lending a helping hand. We know there are a lot of displaced families out there and we want to do our part to help.

Brian Spencer

Who goeth a borrowing/ Goeth a sorrowing./ Few lend (but fools)/ Their working tools.

Thomas Tusser

From the lending side of things, I have not heard of any shortage of funds for lending.

Matt Diersen

The Arab League would be wrong to lend its blind support to the Khartoum regime.

Suliman Baldo

This is a legitimate concern and that's why the central bank has to urge commercial banks to pay attention to their pace of new lending.

Yi Gang

In addition, when the index was created in 1981 the typical lending criteria, assumptions and mortgage instruments were considerably different from what they are today.

Walt Molony

Mortgage lending is an opportunistic business and when business declines, the instinct is to consolidate to become more efficient, and that is what we are seeing.

Celia Chen

The features of the property lend itself to passive use.

Dan Stencil

The line I kept getting was 'We don't want to lend to restaurants because they're too risky,'.

Bruce Johnston

I am very pleased that Chad will lend his experience and knowledge to NCTAF. Chad's passion to improve education will be an incredible asset to the board.

Richard Riley

I was glad I could lend a helping hand.

Andy Lee

I'm just excited to look back at some of my experiences and lend them to the younger players. I'm excited and I really believe I can help in those areas.

James Patrick

It's a great show, beautifully done and the surroundings really lend themselves to an art show.

Sarah Anderson

Behind these monthly fluctuations, mortgage lending is on a stable trend, though not as high as 2004 levels.

David Dooks

Tough federal and state laws should be enacted to prohibit predatory lending.

Mike Turner

He's a big fella. It just doesn't lend itself to the symmetry of the park.

Bill Brooks

He's been impressive, and he's going to lend at least quality depth to the (center) position.

Lloyd Carr

Lending to businesses became the flavor of the month about 18 months ago. It's a direct consequence of heightened competition in the industry after mortgage lending slowed.

Paul Dowling

I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because I want to bring great awareness to this cause.

Sara Evans

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

Jack Phelps

Exports are starting to firm, which is lending support to industrial production.

Glenn Maguire

I lead the sprint side of the team and lend some of my experience to the younger guys. I try to help us all improve.

James Lipscomb

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.

Michael Rushford

The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.

Joe Mays

You can't listen to the news or watch the dramatic images of the effects of Katrina and not want to lend a hand.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

The first byword is that lending to family and friends on a handshake is probably one of the most speculative investments you'll ever make.

Catherine Williams

There is a general attitude among the public that we're too big to fail. But the fact of the matter is that the dollars that we're sending out the door every day are so much more than what we're taking in -- it's exhausted our credit, the banks won't lend to us.

John Fielder

Both sides are a little bit at fault here, ... The creditors and banks and other lenders have to be a little more discerning as to whom they lend their dollars. More importantly, we need to be a little more discriminating about borrowing dollars.

Anthony Liuzzo

If your income isn't high enough, or you're spending too much, they're not going to lend you money.

Peter Weiss

Will lend to the healing process and not be something that will cause more divisiveness.

Chris Dunshee

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Ambrose Bierce

Raising the lending rate is the first tightening of the controls.

Ba Shusong

New car lending is not a high-margin business. The net margin is usually less than 1 percent.

Christopher Wolfe

The bank may also contribute to the economic activities within the country in terms of lending to fund growth that will build up the economy further.

Adrian Chee

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.

Richard Herrington

There are an increasing number of businesses doing this kind of lending and financing.

Mark Solomon

Credit bureaus are at the heart of sound lending practices and benefit not just lenders but also borrowers.

Gordon Cooper

There are still some countries out there that have yet to lend their full support.

Tim Adams

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

As a thrift, they can go anywhere, take a deposit from anyone and the lending restrictions are a lot less than for a credit union.

Bob Freedman

We lend an ear. I think we're very compassionate.

Sophia Samaniego

It has been a beautiful thing to see, the flags draped on balconies and cars, faces painted, the red and green of our cloth everywhere, ... I hope the Portuguese can keep the spirit up and lend it to their everyday lives.

Jorge Sampaio

We are a real museum and we are going to do all the things that a real museum does. We are going to lend things, we are going to borrow things and we're going to send exhibitions on the road.

Dennis Barrie

Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflation.

James Turk

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Francois Rabelais

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Aretha Franklin

Clearly we want to lend to project and in areas where there is good community support.

Ken Chalk

The lending industry is doing what it can to get a piece of the shrinking pie. You're going to see more aggressive offers in the coming year.

Anthony Hsieh

We've never gone through an adverse economic cycle with this type of lending. The uncertainty is what happens if we have a significant downturn.

Bud Ward

Let the banks do disaster lending directly. They're in the business of making loans.

John Ducrest

It is better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

Polish Proverb

It's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Philip Gibbs

Great leaders and great friends have learned how to lend hope to those in despair.

Grant Fairley

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Edward Everett Hale