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  • I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.

    "Essays". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Chapter XII; in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922), p. 653-54, 1595.
  • 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 government.

    Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.252, Jazzybee Verlag
  • The borrower runs in his own debt.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.295, Library of America
  • The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

    Issues   People   Voting  
  • Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

    Art   Work   Men  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria
  • Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

    Suicide   Night   Light  
    Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.

  • There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

    Home   Debt   Financial  
    Henrik Ibsen (2005). “A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.12, Prestwick House Inc
  • What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.

    Lonely   Eye   Hands  
  • The roots of the crisis in East Asia were in private sector decisions. The biggest problems were the misallocation of investment, most notably to speculative real estate, and risky financing, especially borrowing short-term debt on international markets.

    Real   Decision   Problem  
  • The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

  • I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

    Mother   Proud   Pay  
    Source: deadline.com
  • Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

    Army   Practice   Next  
  • The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.

    Years   Cost   Assets  
    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "The Charlie Rose Show", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

    Cousin   Jobs   Like Love  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.376, A&C Black
  • The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.

    Princess   Aunt   Air  
    Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers
  • It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

    Decision   Action   Poor  
  • I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.404
  • You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.

    Smart   Would Be   Needs  
    "Warren Buffett’s big life lesson to students: Don’t borrow money like Donald Trump" by Tae Kim, www.cnbc.com. April 12, 2018.
  • It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

  • Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

  • The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

    People   Trying   Doe  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.7, Courier Corporation
  • We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

    Long   Giving   Borrowing  
  • For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981
  • Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

    Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.2
  • Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.

    Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 249), March 29, 1967.
  • There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

    Latin   Greek   Doubt  
    Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.128, Stanford University Press
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