BORROWING QUOTES II

quotations about borrowing

Debt is a bottomless sea.

THOMAS CARLYLE

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations


The borrower is a servant to the lender.

KING SOLOMON

Proverbs 22:7


'Tis a very good world that we live in,
To lend, or to spend, or to give in;
But to beg or to borrow, or get a man's own,
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.

JOHN WILMOT

Epigram


Always borrow from a pessimist--he never expects it back.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Nature hath created man to no other end but to lend and to borrow.

FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Works


Borrowing is not a revenue, and the repayment of debt is not an outlay.

UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

Federal Debt and Interest Costs, 1993


Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

DORIS LESSING

attributed, Learning


Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

HENRIK IBSEN

A Doll's House


Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.

THOMAS TUSSER

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry


What a careless, even deportment hath your borrower! What rosy gills! What a beautiful reliance on Providence doth he manifest--taking no more thought than lilies! What contempt for money--accounting it (yours and mine especially) no better than dross!

CHARLES LAMB

The Essays of Elia


Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.

THOMAS TUSSER

June's Abstract


Do not be made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou hast nothing in thy purse; for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own life.

APOCRYPHA

Ben Sira 18:33


You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.

HEINRICH HEINE

Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine


Long borrowed is not given.

GERMAN PROVERB


You build on cost and you borrow on value.

PAUL REICHMANN

attributed, The Harper Book of Quotations


Borrowed books and umbrellas are seldom returned.

RUSKIN BOND

Funny Side Up


The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Heartbreak House


Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

WILL CUPPY

"I'm Not the Budget Type", Scribner's Magazine, December 1937


At some time to borrow, account it no shame,
If justly thou keepest they touch for the same:
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay,
Their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
By shifting and borrowing whoso as lives,
Not well to be thought on occasion gives:
Then lay to live warily and wisely to spend,
For prodigal livers have seldom good end.

THOMAS TUSSER, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry


Where ease is sought, at length we see, there plenty waxeth scant,
Who careless live, go borrow must, or else full often want.

THOMAS TUSSER

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry