lending quotes

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

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

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.