Judith Martin Quotes

Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

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

No person shall practice usury at a rate of more than one twelfth.

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard

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.

I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

I would love to, if someone would lend me the money.

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

I still say exactly what my original opinion is. Do you borrow money from China to send it to anyone? Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.