Borrowers Quotes

• Russia will honour its international commitments. Our country is a reliable borrower, a reliable creditor and a reliable supplier. Sanctions come and go, but business ties, economic interests and the reputation of a state remain

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Commitment, Russia

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

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

  Richard Heber

  Book, Gentleman, Three

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Philosophical, Lenders

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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

  Morris L. Ernst

  Littles, Shoulders, Borrowing

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• Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

  John Turner

  Party, Law, Debtors

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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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• Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Money, Business

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• I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Mean, Odd

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races of Men'

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• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Men, Priorities

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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

  John Milton

  Kind, Plagiarism, Borrowing

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• Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score?

  Mark Zandi

  Jobs, Doe, Income

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• The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Treasure, Prove

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• Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

  John Ruskin

  Money, War, Evil

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.22

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• Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

  Mary Norton

  Stories, Goes On, Sometimes

  Mary Norton (1989). “The Borrowers”, Sandpiper

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• We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Philosophy, Philosophical, World

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• Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

  George R. R. Martin

  Generosity, Your Generosity

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• The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Debtors, Slave

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.272, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.

  Robin Williams

  Hunters, Used, Hunter Gatherers

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• When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

  Niall Ferguson

  Fall, Painful, Interest

  Niall Ferguson (2008). “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”, p.45, Penguin

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• All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Eye, Names, Credit

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.37, Crown Business

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• Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Stupid, Believe

  "Decline with a Chance of Fall" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan. It does not take this money from anyone else's deposit; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It's new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.

  Robert B. Anderson

  Doe, Add, Use

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• The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

  Michael Burry

  Watches, Restraint, Shows

  "Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis" by Mark Henderson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

  Jack Kemp

  Real, Opposites, Serious

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