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Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest. — Mitt Romney

I borrow bits from everyone. — Janice Dickinson

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous ... to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow. — James Ellis

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed. — Babatunde Fashola

Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble. — George Washington

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman. — George Henry Borrow

Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other. — Francis Fukuyama

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique. — Mikhail Tal

The inventor knows HOW to borrow. — Harold Bloom

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!' — Cheryl Hayashi

I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C. — Chris Diamantopoulos

I would borrow the microphone and stuff it down the front of my pants, examining myself from every angle in the mirror — Augusten Burroughs

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! — John Godfrey Saxe

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards. — John Niven

She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. — Evan Esar

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. — Publilius Syrus

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. — Charles Lamb

We don't carry in subtraction, however; we borrow, and that involves an intrinsically different mechanism - a messy back-and-forth kind of thing. — Charles Petzold

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood. — Jose Rizal

We must walk before we run. — George Henry Borrow

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it. — Philip Emeagwali

It is a tradition among our desert tribes. A man may borrow what he needs. Stealing is crime. — James Rollins

not to borrow trouble by worrying about it. — Jane Smiley

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully. — Abraham Lincoln

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow. — Larry Wall

Don't ask to borrow unless you intend to repay them. — Mark Romagna

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back. — Dmitry Medvedev

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me. — Charlotte Bronte

Man is the only animal to borrow tools. — Tim Allen

When asked to borrow money: I'll see what my lawyer says ... And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer. — W.C. Fields

A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other. — Indira Gandhi

I finally accepted Jesus. not as my personal savior, but as a man I intend to borrow money from. — George Carlin

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom. — Rashida Jones

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. — Kin Hubbard

As my father used to say: There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend. — Patrick Rothfuss

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Buyerarchy of Needs (with apologies to Maslow):

use what you have
borrow
swap
thrift
make
buy — Sarah Lazarovic

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. — John Quincy Adams

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown! — Brooke Burns

Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill

If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole.-RVM — R.v.m.

Guess - You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The — Mary Doria Russell

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. — Lee Iacocca

Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity. — Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it. — Winston Churchill

I borrow the stilts of an old tragedy. — Sylvia Plath

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything. — Cameron Mackintosh

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

How does it feel to be used Mare Borrow? — Victoria Aveyard

Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow. — Countee Cullen

Dude, you've been fingering that box in your pocket all this time? I thought you had crabs or something. I was going to let you borrow my cream. — Tara Sivec

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. — Simon Travaglia

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens ... — Charles Tilly

I don't have 'five' you can borrow. My piggy bank is officially anorexic. — Becca Fitzpatrick

You can't borrow your way to prosperity. — Terry Branstad

I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow. — Woodrow Wilson

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute. — Rand Paul

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale. — George Henry Borrow

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white. — George Herbert

To live is to be born slowly. it would be a little too easy to borrow ready-made souls! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. — Mary Doria Russell

Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out. — Haruki Murakami

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? — John Keats

Do not borrow fear before its time' ~ Titus — Kate Quinn

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound. — William Shakespeare

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value. — Francis Quarles

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. — Martial

You can borrow time, but you can't steal it. — Kevin DeYoung

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. — George Borrow

In the United States, the more common way to initiate change has been to have consultants come in who "borrow your watch to tell you what time it is — Paul Myerson

Borrow the strength from the companion who believes in you more that you believe in yourself. Guardian to Maeve — P.C. Cast

You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

All I did was go to the library to borrow some books — Haruki Murakami

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932 ... it was really tough. — Roy Rogers

I see Kayla dragged you into this."
I smiled at him. "No, sir, I just came to borrow a cup of sugar."
"Heh. — Ilona Andrews

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. — James Jeffrey Roche

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown. — Joe Greene

Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life. — Ruth Ozeki

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship! — Jennifer O'Neill

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of
what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow. — Helen Steiner Rice

Satan is so deceptive! He likes to borrow Christian vocabulary, but he does not use the Christian dictionary! — Warren W. Wiersbe

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for. — Mitt Romney

Your sorrow is yours--truly yours. No one can borrow or share it. No one can carry it for you. — Debasish Mridha

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. — George Borrow

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today — Stephen R. Lawhead

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids! — Jim Rohn

No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for a while. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction? — Darin Strauss

I not only use all the dreams that I have, but all that I can borrow. — Woodrow Wilson

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. — Wislawa Szymborska

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him — Addison Mizner

It seemed harmless enough until she misplaced her "Dildo" and started calling the neighbors to ask if she could borrow one of theirs! — Mollie Gross