BORROWING QUOTES

quotations about borrowing

Lend money, and acquire an enemy.

YIDDISH PROVERB


Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Instructions To His Sons


Never be at home to borrowers because if you're in, you'll be out, but if you're out, you'll be in.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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

MORRIS LEOPOLD ERNST

The Best Is Yet


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

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

attributed, Iron Sharpens Iron: Wisdom of the Ages


Borrowing is the most expensive form of financing.

ANONYMOUS

Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, winter 1985/winter 1986


Borrowers must not be choosers.

FRENCH PROVERB


Borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

JOHN PODHORETZ

New York Post, Jan. 15, 2013


The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

CHARLES LAMB

The Essays of Elia


A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm.

EGYPTIAN PROVERB


Well you follow where you've led
Say you're using your head
Still making the rounds
With the fools and the clowns
Didn't you feel so wise for a while
Didn't you feel that your ship had arrived
There was nothing left to borrow

THE JAYHAWKS

"Nothing Left to Borrow", Tomorrow the Green Grass


Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet


Have a horse of thine own and thou mayst borrow another's.

WELSH PROVERB


Laugh when you borrow and you'll cry when you pay.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

BIBLE

Matthew 5:42


Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.

JOHN RAY

English Proverbs


Loans and debts make worry and frets.

ENGLISH PROVERB


Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serence--
A woman to thy wife, though she were a crowned queen;
And the second, borrowed money--though the smiling lender say
That he will not demand the debt until the Judgment Day.

IBN JEMIN

Epigram


No remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry IV


If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac