| Author |
Quotes |
| Artemus Ward | Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. |
| Benjamin Franklin | If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. |
| Bible | The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. |
| Charles Lamb | 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. |
| Francois Rabelais | Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. |
| German Proverb | He who borrows sells his freedom. |
| Isaac D Israeli | Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners. |
| Josh Billings | Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. |
| Kin Hubbard | Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialndex | He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialndex | You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phoebus, is my own. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialndex | I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse. |
| Morris Leopold Ernst | The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. |
| Thomas Tusser | Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. Few lend Their working tools. - Thomas Tusser, |
| William Shakespeare | Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. |
| William Shakespeare | Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. |
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