quotations about borrowing
Borrowing thrives but once.
GERMAN PROVERB
A borrowed garment never sets well.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Borrow from yourself.
CATO
Fragments
One who borrows brews his own trouble.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.
CHEVY CHASE, Fletch
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758
What you lend is lost.
PLAUTUS
Trinummus
I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
WILL CUPPY
"I'm Not the Budget Type", Scribner's Magazine, December 1937
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
REGINALD IHEANACHO & DEJI ABODUNDE
Spearheading a Digital Revolution
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
MARTIAL
Epigrams
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
If you lend money to any of My people ... you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
EXODUS 22:24
Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Pantagruel
Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.
JUVENAL
Satire viii
If you would keep your poverty a secret, neither borrow nor beg.
E. P. DAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it.
ARTEMUS WARD
Natural History
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
attributed, True Genius: 1001 Quotes That Will Change Your Life
Who wants to borrow, should come tomorrow.
YIDDISH PROVERB
The sin of government borrowing stems from the combination of economic inefficency and our once-every-few-years election system. The man in power is reluctant to raise taxes: a tax-hike is too obvious a sign of government incompetence and too visible an encroachment upon the taxpayer's wealth. So why not go the subtle way?
MOTTY PEREL
Smiling for Profit