Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

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

Moses (that wise Legislator) in his forbidding the Jews to lend money one to another, and permitting them to lend their money to Strangers; ordained that Law as much to a Political as a Religious intent; knowing that by the latter they should enrich their own Nation, and by the former no publick good could ensue; the consequences being only to impoverish one Jew to make another rich.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.

You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

I never got a job from a poor person.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

Never rely on your friends for money, or on your money for friends.