Quotes About Borrowing

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

Don't worry if you borrow, but worry if you lend.

A borrower may not lend the thing he borrowed.

He who borrows will have to pay again with shame or loss.

How strange! When people borrow money, they bow to you and when you collect it, you have to bow to them.

Then you'll cry and go on livin'. But girl, you be borrowing trouble 'fore there be trouble to borrow. You done be lettin' that fear take over your heart again. What happened to your trust, chile? What happened to your trust?" Rose

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Les bons artistes empruntent, les grands artistes volent.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on. Everything. We borrow the sun that shines on us today from the people on the other side of the world while they borrow the moon from us. Then we give it back. We can't keep the sun, no matter how afraid we are of the dark.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use

George Washington was rich in land but not in money. When he became president of the United States, he had to borrow money from a friend to make the trip to New York City for

Alma's dependence on Hebrews 7 is not a matter of plagiarism but one of interpretive and conceptual borrowing.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

We borrow 40 cents out of every dollar that we spend. We borrow most of it from countries like China. They have become major creditors of the United States and have more power over our economy than we want them to. So dealing with this is not only the right thing economically, it's certainly right from a moral viewpoint.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

Before asking a friend to borrow money ask yourself which is more important, their friendship or their money.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.