book lending Quotes

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.