A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

George Jean Nathan

Set up rules for when you will "give" not lend money. Never lend. My people know that I'll help with college. I'll help if they lose they job thu no fault of their own.

Michelle Singletary

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Benjamin Franklin

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

Paloma Faith

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

Plautus

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

William Shakespeare

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

Jesse H. Jones

Lend your money and lose your friend.

William Caxton

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Oliver Goldsmith

Save money; never rely on other people to lend you money. We call it having 'walking the streets' money - money in your back pocket or bank account that belongs to you.

Theo Paphitis

Lend and I certainly didn't start off on the right foot"-only Raquel would refer to Lend punching her and then us imprisoning him in an IPCA cell and interrogating him as being the "wrong foot"- "but he's always been good to you,and I have no doubt you two will be able to work this out.