"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just……" — Doris Lessing
"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."
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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing has 201 quotes on this site.
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist:…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was…
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More Begging Quotes
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
— Mortimer Adler
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I don't like begging money from producers.
— David Byrne
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number…
— Ronald Reagan
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We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the…
— Richard Branson
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood…
— Sylvia Plath
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have…
— John G. Lake
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
— Oscar Wilde
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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not…
— Cesar Chavez
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
— Martin Luther
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
— Jeanette Winterson
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