Borrowing Quotes

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

We are borrowing $40,000 per second.

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.” “This is called you’re crazy.

I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

Moreover, because we chose to finance the way by borrowing, our deficits and debt has soared, and this means we have less room for maneuver, less money available to stimulate the eocnomy in the way needed.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

Rather than Barack Obama borrowing from Mitt Romney, both Romney and Obama borrowed from Richard Nixon.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.