Quotes of Lent - somelinesforyou

“ Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. ”

- Anatole France

“ A happy life is made up of little things: a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent. ”

- Carol Holmes

“ Don't be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed. ”

- Unknown

“ Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content! ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. ”

- Benjamin Franklin
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