Borrowing Quotes

175 quotes by 151 authors

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard. — Aeschylus
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting… — Michael Bloomberg
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. — Sonny Bono
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the… — Ray Bradbury
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived… — James Buchan
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and… — Margaret Cho
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes… — Christopher Hitchens
Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or… — John Wilmot
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. — Samuel Johnson
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. — Mark Twain
People cannot live by lending money to one another. — John Ruskin
Reading means borrowing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend. — Oliver Goldsmith
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to… — Alexander Hamilton
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. — Benjamin Franklin

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