Borrowing Quotes

These are our collection of quotes and sayings about borrowing.

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

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

If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
~ Benjamin Franklin

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

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
~Igor Stravinsky

Money lent to a friend must be recovered from an enemy.
~ German Proverb

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.
~William Shakespeare

Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
~American Proverbs

Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
~Francois Rabelais

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.
~Marcus Valerius Martial

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.
~Morris Leopold Ernst

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Don’t marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper
~ Scottish Proverb

People lend only to the rich.
~Proverbs

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
~ Samuel Johnson

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
~ Addison H. Hallock

Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
~Proverbs

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
~Josh Billings

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
~Addison H. Hallock

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
~Bible

He who borrows sells his freedom.
~German 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

You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money.
~ Yiddish Proverb

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 new government.
~Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Loans and debts make worry and frets.
~ Proverb

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 new government
~ Abraham Lincoln

He who prefers to give someone the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
~Marcus Valerius Martial

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