Borrowing Quotes - Page 6

• Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

  Martin Mayer

  Men, Widows, Handsome

  Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet

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• When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.

  John T. Flynn

  Government, Dry Up, World

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.16, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.

  Marriner Stoddard Eccles

  Men, Hands, Games

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• There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Home, Debt, Financial

  Henrik Ibsen (2005). “A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.12, Prestwick House Inc

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• The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.

  Mark Thornton

  Class, People, Saving

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• If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Trying, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Jenny Holzer

  Associates, I Can

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• Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Work, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria

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• Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

  Karen Marie Moning

  Book, Holy, Bibliophiles

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.219, Delacorte Press

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• God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

  Aeschylus

  Love, Spiritual, Men

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• His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another.

  Robert Musil

  Art, Fall, Curves

  Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan

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• It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

  John Wilmot

  Men, World, Very Good

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• People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, People

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• As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hands, Essentials, Credit

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1789-1795: France; Duties on imports; National bank; Manufactures; Revenue circulars; Reports on claims, etc”, p.2

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

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Crazy, Stealing, Stranded

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

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• Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Cousin, Jobs, Like Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.376, A&C Black

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• The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.

  Frank Beddor

  Princess, Aunt, Air

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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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, Good Authors

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• It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Decision, Action, Poor

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• Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

  Richard Brautigan

  Suicide, Night, Light

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Kody Chamberlain

  Powerful, Inspiration, Ideas

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• 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.

  Anuj

  Creating, Buying, Easy

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• Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.

  Maureen Dowd

  Kids, Years, Car

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

  Kelley Armstrong

  Writing, Worry

  "Q&A with Kelley Armstrong, bestselling fantasy writer". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 27, 2011.

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• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

  Evan Davis

  Effectiveness, Too Much, Wonder

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