Quotes About Borrowing

The emergence of this stable, public market for state debt was the most politically significant economic innovation of the age. It allowed the British government to borrow funds at a far lower rate than had been the case when it depended on moneylenders and tax farmers—the system that remained in force in France.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

That's two dollars and a half. Who can we borrow that from?" "That's easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half.

That's easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half." "I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time.

First you borrow. Then you beg.

Primero pides prestado; luego pides limosna.

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

The things to watch are whether the country's borrowing costs are rising, whether its budgetary allotment for payments on the debt is increasing, and whether it is spending on good priorities. Those big, scary debt numbers are not as big and scary as they used to be.

Our role as producers is mainly limited to borrowing money from friends when we run short of cash.

We spend too much, we borrow too much, and we distort the markets. The bigger the distortions have lasted, the bigger the bust will be.

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

to lend a book is an incitement to theft. A Reader on Reading p. 281

To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art—borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination

She stamped the book and gave it to me. "You bring it back in three weeks." I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. "That's where a book should be carried.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

We are the tenants, not the landlords, a temple priest once said at a weekly gathering. We only borrow the air we breathe and the food we eat and the water we drink.

You can't borrow your way to prosperity.

You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.