Borrowing Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but…

— Julien Green

“When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not…

— Michel de Montaigne

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

— Owen Wister

When a man's talk is commonplace and his writings uncommon, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he borrows it,…

— Michel De Montaigne

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty…

— Wendell Phillips

“It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to…

— John Ruskin

“You can borrow things and clothing from shops to look expensive and successful but remember that you cannot borrow personality or wisdom to look…

— Nicky Verd

“Some people by what they want And borrow what they need.”

— Lillian Theresa Burton

“But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not…

— Ayn Rand