“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” From the play Hamlet.
Do you think this is good advice for a father to give to his son? Why or why not?
2006-12-04 03:54:00 · 4 answers · asked by rocksinger4ever 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
From experience - both personal and watching it happen to others - money between friends can place a strain on the relationship. People want their money back, and sometimes the borrower wants their friends to be a little more understanding of their situation.
I don't know whether it is good advice for a father to give to a son, but I am a mother and have advised my daughter of the same. It has led to good conversations about ethics, responsibilities, friendships, expectations, and it has just been pragmatic too. She's learned a lot about herself and her friends and what kinds of things one can lean on others for. But she can borrow money from me anytime she needs it. Family is different. Family is...well, family.
2006-12-04 04:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by MDG 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a good advice for 2 new persons.
Father and son relationship isn't that of 2 new ones it is the relation of giving and borrowing of not money but kindness and love.
2006-12-04 11:59:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if memory serves, Polonius was giving this advice to his son Laertes just before Laertes sets out on a journey. Right?
Usually they teach in schools that this is very pedantic advice. But that doesn't mean it's not sensible advice.
If you lend money to a buddy and he or she does not pay you back when you expect, it makes for a certain amount of awkwardness, don't you think?
2006-12-04 12:06:09 · answer #3 · answered by bmi=22 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is sound advice. The ancient Persians considered debts to be second only to lying as dishonourable things.
"I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily
with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted
with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neither"
This is my favourite part of Hamlet.
2006-12-04 14:36:05 · answer #4 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋