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
Do submit your favorite Borrowings quotes.
Related posts:
