"Every man is a borrower and a mimic,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Borrower Quotes

This quote is filed under Borrower Quotes, one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can… — Bear Bryant
• Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor. — Benjamin Franklin
• Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan.… — Robert Anderson
• The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he… — Walter Benjamin
• Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing. — Peter R. Orszag
• Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need… — Mark Zandi
• Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
• The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. — Morris L. Ernst
• Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. — Alan Greenspan
• The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. — Jack Kemp

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