Borrowing Quotes

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

— Karen Marie Moning

He who borrows sells his freedom.

— German Proverb

Debt is a bottomless sea.

— Anonymous

“I can lend you my money not my books.”

— Amit Kalantri

Loans and debts make worry and frets.

— Proverb

We are borrowing $40,000 per second.

— Rand Paul

Borrowed garments never fit well.

— Proverb

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

— Oren Peli

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

— Arne Duncan

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

— Elizabeth Berg

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

— Rand Paul

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.

— Joe Moore

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

— Kenneth Rogoff

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

— Josh Billings

You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

— Lauren Conrad

A Person That Goes A-Borrowing, Goes A-Sorrowing; Do Not Make Borrowing A Habit As You Will Suffer For It In The End.

— Pacifiersucker

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through…

— Bill Viola

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

— Margaret Thatcher

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers…

— Anonymous

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

— William Shakespeare

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

— Doris Lessing

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

— Laurie Simmons

In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works,…

— Patrick Carney

“Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.…

— William Shakespeare

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff…

— Kevin McCloud

You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then,…

— Ronald Reagan

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can…

— Will Cuppy

By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And…

— Tom Hodgkinson

In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to…

— Hillary Clinton

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,…

— Hilary Mantel

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept…

— Carl Jung

“There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit,…

— Henry Hazlitt

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect…

— Jennifer Egan

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there…

— Neil Gaiman

The other day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot remember any day when we…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if…

— Dave Eggers

The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with…

— Nigel Lawson

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset…

— Richard Wagner