Borrowing Quotes

Borrowing Quote of the day

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

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.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

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

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

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.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

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

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.

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

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

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

As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.

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

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

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

The problem is that 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.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'