Borrowing Quotes

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Government, Individuality

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.252, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Debt By Founding Fathers, Awe Inspiring

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.252, Printed for H. Colborn

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• As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

  Al Gore

  Civilization, Oil, Years

  Al Gore's speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field in Denver, Colorado, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2008.

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Acceptance, Self Reliance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Beautiful, Home

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “A doll's house”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

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• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.72, Cosimo Classics

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• From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Money, Wealth, Get Rich

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• It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

  Publilius Syrus

  Hype, Pay, Fraud

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

  Doris Lessing

  Begging You, Stealing, Lending

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• 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.

  Sonny Bono

  Fame, Dies

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• Borrowing is not much better than begging.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Begging You, Lending, Beggary

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1950). “Nathan the Wise: (Nathan der Weise)”

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Needs, Multitudes, Willing

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• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

  Ernest Holmes

  Reality, Mind, Age

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.27, Penguin

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

  Peter DeFazio

  Running, Made, Deficit

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• People cannot live by lending money to one another.

  John Ruskin

  Money, People, Lending

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• 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.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Stranger, Neighbor, Borrowing Money

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• Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sadness, Misery

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• Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Rats, Common

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 81, Curiosities of Literature, The Bibliomania, 1922.

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• 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.

  Christie Brinkley

  Jobs, Business, Phones

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• But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

  Martin Feldstein

  Country, Moving, Adverse Effects

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• We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

  Max Bill

  Art, Natural, Resources

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• Debt is a bottomless sea.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sea, Debt

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

  Morris L. Ernst

  Littles, Shoulders, Beggar

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