Beggary Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Download Open image “Borrowing is not much better than begging.” — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beggary Begging Begging you Borrowing Inspirational Lending Love
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Borrowing money from a bank is sometimes like borrowing money from your children. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! — John Milton Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image