quotations about borrowing
Lend money, and acquire an enemy.
YIDDISH PROVERB
The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.
MORRIS LEOPOLD ERNST
The Best Is Yet
Borrowers must not be choosers.
FRENCH PROVERB
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Instructions To His Sons
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
attributed, Iron Sharpens Iron: Wisdom of the Ages
Never be at home to borrowers because if you're in, you'll be out, but if you're out, you'll be in.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
JOHN PODHORETZ
New York Post, Jan. 15, 2013
A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm.
EGYPTIAN PROVERB
Have a horse of thine own and thou mayst borrow another's.
WELSH PROVERB
Borrowing is the most expensive form of financing.
ANONYMOUS
Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, winter 1985/winter 1986
Well you follow where you've led
Say you're using your head
Still making the rounds
With the fools and the clowns
Didn't you feel so wise for a while
Didn't you feel that your ship had arrived
There was nothing left to borrow
THE JAYHAWKS
"Nothing Left to Borrow", Tomorrow the Green Grass
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
CHARLES LAMB
The Essays of Elia
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
BIBLE
Matthew 5:42
Laugh when you borrow and you'll cry when you pay.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
No remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry IV
Loans and debts make worry and frets.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serence--
A woman to thy wife, though she were a crowned queen;
And the second, borrowed money--though the smiling lender say
That he will not demand the debt until the Judgment Day.
IBN JEMIN
Epigram
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanac