quotations about borrowing
A borrowed garment never sets well.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Borrow from yourself.
CATO
Fragments
Borrowing thrives but once.
GERMAN PROVERB
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
What you lend is lost.
PLAUTUS
Trinummus
One who borrows brews his own trouble.
AMERICAN PROVERB
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
REGINALD IHEANACHO & DEJI ABODUNDE
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758
Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.
CHEVY CHASE, Fletch
Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Pantagruel
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
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
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
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
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
Who wants to borrow, should come tomorrow.
YIDDISH PROVERB
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
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
W. J. VOGEL
attributed, It's More Than Money