- a loan oft loses both itself and the friend
- lend your money and lose your friend
English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs . 2013.
a loan oft loses both itself and the friend
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lend your money and lose your friend — 1474 CAXTON Game of Chess (1883) III. iv. 112 And herof speketh Domas the philosopher and sayth that my frende borrowed money of me And I haue lost my frende and my money attones [simultaneously]. 1600–1 SHAKESPEARE Hamlet I. iii. 75 Neither a… … Proverbs new dictionary
Polonius — is a character from William Shakespeare s Hamlet . The character is best known for uttering the immortal words: To thine own self be true, as well as a few other phrases still in use today such as Neither a borrower nor a lender be and brevity is … Wikipedia
neither a borrower nor a lender be — 1601 SHAKESPEARE Hamlet I. iii. 73 Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend. 1985 R. CURTIS & B. ELTON Blackadder II in R. Curtis et al. Black Adder (1998) 192 Take heed the moral of this tale, Be not a… … Proverbs new dictionary
