Borrowed Quotes

233 quotes by 203 authors

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle… — Charles Caleb Colton
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. — Benjamin Franklin
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking… — Jennifer Granholm
Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is… — Alan Greenspan
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a… — Guy Fieri
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock
Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up… — Mike Huckabee
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. — Ken Livingstone
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from… — Thomas B. Macaulay
No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. — Dee Dee Myers
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time. — Maureen O'Hara
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and… — Barack Obama
The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't… — John Podhoretz
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out… — Rumi
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. — Samuel Rutherford
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and… — Paul Ryan
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. — Maurice Strong
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. — John Wanamaker

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