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Quotes About Borrowing

Always borrow money from a pessimist... He never expects to be paid back.
~ Buffalo Express, 1910
The most original wits borrow from one another.
~ Voltaire
Language aren't created in a day; some have evolved over hundreds, even thousands of years, and are still evolving. The user of any language must constantly invent to adapt to fresh circumstances, and when invention flags they must borrow.
~ Graham King
What is obvious about this section of the Book of Mormon is that it was borrowed from the KJV and placed in an ancient American context.
~ Grant H. Palmer
In movies, people always "borrow" cars by yanking some wires out from under the dash and connecting them. But the real way it works involves a screwdriver and the starter thingy, under the hood. My personal ethics prevent me from giving you more information. That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.
~ James Patterson
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
~ John Hume
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
~ Mortimer Zuckerman
There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.
~ Alan Greenspan
Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
~ Michael Gove
Men like to borrow kisses because they know they will have to pay them back.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Good poets borrow; great poets steal.
~ David Shields
I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
~ Tony Scott
There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.
~ Jon Watts
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
~ Doris Lessing
There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Everyone steals from something or someone.
~ Janice Dickinson
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
~ B. B. King
Debt is the worst poverty.
~ Thomas Fuller
Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.
~ Thomas Tusser
One thing you'll never hear boys--or for that matter, men--saying is, "Charlie, that's a good-looking shirt. Kind of a fun thing. And those trousers make your ass look nice. Can I borrow those?
~ Tim Allen
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
~ Arthur Miller
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
~ William Shakespeare
There's nothing new about fashionable women borrowing from men's style; just think of Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, or Diane Keaton.
~ Kayleen Schaefer
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
~ Oscar Wilde