Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both…

The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

— Benjamin Franklin

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

— William Shakespeare

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

— Ernest Rutherford

“The borrower is slave to the lender.”

— Anonymous

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.

— William Shakespeare

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

— James Grant

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

— Anonymous

The borrower runs in his own debt.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

— William Shakespeare

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

— Solomon

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as…

— Walter Benjamin

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

— Anonymous

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

— Bear Bryant

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is…

— Andrew Cuomo

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in…

— Joseph Addison