Borrowing Quotes
175 quotes by 151 authors
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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
— Aeschylus
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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
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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
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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
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
— Thomas Tusser
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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
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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
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No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
— Samuel Johnson
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
— Mark Twain
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People cannot live by lending money to one another.
— John Ruskin
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Reading means borrowing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
— Thomas Tusser
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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
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He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
— Benjamin Franklin
Who Wrote These Borrowing Quotes
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