Borrowed Quotes

233 quotes by 203 authors

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage
Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated. — Peter Lynch
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in… — Warren G. Bennis
When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I… — Peg Bracken
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But… — Edgar Allan Poe
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you… — Heber C. Kimball
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like "Hey, when are you going to pay me that hundred… — Jack Handey
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive. — Jason Gray
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend. — Barbara Corcoran
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the… — William S. Burroughs
History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads,… — Ludwig von Mises
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect… — Herbert Spencer
Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are… — Christian D. Larson
Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking. — Kate Jacobs
The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat… — Paul Levine
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture. — Jerry Bridges
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The… — Samuel Johnson

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