The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (317 page)

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LEND your money and lose your friend
1474
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
Hamlet
I.iii. 75
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
1721
Scottish Proverbs Lend your Money, and lose your Friend
.
It is not the lending of our Money that loses our Friend; but the demanding it again.
1960
Enter Murderers
xiii.
You know what they say about lending money, it's a sure way to lose friends.
borrowing and lending
;
friends.
LENGTH begets loathing
1742
Don Quixote
II. ii. ix.
The rest I omit, because length begets loathing.
a
1895
My Confidences
(1896) 43
‘Length begets loathing.’ I well remember the sultry Sunday evenings when .. we simmered through Mr. Shepherd's long-winded pastorals.
brevity and long-windedness

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