Borrowing Quotes

175 quotes by 151 authors

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from… — J. G. Holland
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just… — Will Rogers
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good… — Will Rogers
Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is… — Will Rogers
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. — George Bernard Shaw
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they… — Heinrich Heine
Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt. — Thomas Frank
Creditors have better memories than debtors. — Benjamin Franklin
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it… — Al Gore
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers. — Lauren Conrad
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you… — Simon Cowell
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire… — Mitch Daniels
Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule. — Arne Duncan
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. — Edward Everett Hale
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the U.K. has… — Tom Hodgkinson
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. — Ernest Holmes
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. — Doris Lessing
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book,… — Hilary Mantel

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