Borrowing Quotes

175 quotes by 151 authors

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from… — Max Bill
Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow. — Ralph Washington Sockman
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of… — Charles Alexandre de Calonne
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from… — Abraham Lincoln
It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry… — Jenny Holzer
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If… — Warren Buffett
We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get… — Alan Keyes
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen
I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. — Mark Udall
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the… — Linus Pauling
Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities. — Alan Greenspan
Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust… — Martin Mayer
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state… — John T. Flynn
The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes… — Mark Thornton
Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile. — Timothy McVeigh
As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying… — Marriner Stoddard Eccles
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in… — Henry David Thoreau

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