"Borrowing is not much better than begging." — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

More Begging Quotes

This quote is filed under Begging Quotes, one of 287 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not… — Francis of Assisi
• When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to… — Mortimer Adler
• I don't like begging money from producers. — David Byrne
• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. — Miguel de Cervantes
• In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number… — Ronald Reagan
• We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the… — Richard Branson
• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood… — Sylvia Plath
• Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have… — John G. Lake
• As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde
• ...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not… — Cesar Chavez
• Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. — Martin Luther
• I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. — Jeanette Winterson

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