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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage. — D.T. Suzuki

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. — William J.H. Boetcker

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing. — Charlie Chaplin

It's strange how you're sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes. — Thomas Ligotti

Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is unique. — Debasish Mridha

And the way she smiles at me suspends the rest of the world all around me, makes me feel like I've borrowed another life. — Kelly Loy Gilbert

True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together. — George Herbert

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day. — Malcolm X

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs. — Mahatma Gandhi

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language. — Mobutu Sese Seko

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed. — Baltasar Gracian

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana

Benny explained that it wasn't her sweater. It was borrowed from a fellow. She wondered why she needed to tell so much to strangers. — Maeve Binchy

Whatever you choose to claim
of me is always yours;
nothing is truly mine
except my name. I only
borrowed this dust. — Stanley Kunitz

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end. — Ian McEwan

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser

Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not — Caryl Ann Casbon

Flame is the lamp; rest is borrowed. — R.N. Prasher

I didn't really steal it. I just borrowed it for all eternity — Kurt Vonnegut

want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray — Jason Gray

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it! — Mao Zedong

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money. — Estella Warren

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. — Dee Dee Myers

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology. — Alan Greenspan

Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets — Rebecca Godfrey

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence. — George Herbert

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. — John Wanamaker

I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back. — Natalie Massenet

Borrowed garments never keep one warm. — James Russell Lowell

You can't go through life on "Borrowed light. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. — Meher Baba

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary. — Beyonce Knowles

He borrowed me, but you own me. You. Fucking. Own. Me. Take back what's yours and don't ever let me go. — Jewel E. Ann

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money. — Mahatma Gandhi

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day. — Steven Squyres

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence — John Adams

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. — Alfred De Vigny

What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never. — Julien Green

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. — Paul Ryan

Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art. — William Cowper

I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake. — Steven Wright

I shed my borrowed life for an hour and put on the borrowed life of the book I'm reading. — David Levithan

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things. — Aravind Adiga

I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that. — Joan Juliet Buck

World records are only borrowed. — Sebastian Coe

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. — Boz Scaggs

Worry is interest on money never borrowed. — Anonymous

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther — Sarah Dessen

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling

I run my fingers along its rough edges a moment, remembering the day Darian and I borrowed his dad's carving knife and engraved our initials in place. — Shannon Duffy

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. — Mark Steyn

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices. — Gary Weiss

Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb. — Anne Sexton

She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of other mouths... — Dawn Tripp

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness — Johnny Rich

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money. — Albert Gubay

Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is earned. — Debasish Mridha

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards. — Mark Twain

America's been living on borrowed time all these years ... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay the price. — Wally Lamb

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen. — Alex Berenson

Borrowed beliefs have no passion, therefore no power. — John C. Maxwell

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel. — Amanda McKittrick Ros

You stole my car."
"Borrowed it I did, return it I will."
"Okay Yoda, can I have the woman whose body you stole back? — Amelia Hutchins

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece. — Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

We are all but borrowed energy — Perry Covington

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel.
(Something Borrowed) — Emily Giffin

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture. — Jerry Bridges

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. At — Cormac McCarthy

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been. — Robert Silverberg

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free. — Theo Van Doesburg

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. — Gregory Benford

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock

Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest.-Lo-The Wild Hunt — Ashley Jeffery

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage

It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed. — Rumi

He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time. — Nicholas Sparks

I had rather be a mind provocateur than a celebrity because thoughts dwell longer in a person than a designer dress borrowed for one night. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. — Ben Jonson

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at. — Anne Sexton

Tic Tacs you actually swallow, though," Esther pointed out. "You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. — Sarah Dessen

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends. — Ronnie Montrose

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated. — Jonathan Carroll

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere. — Mason Cooley

How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow. — Drake

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. — Adrian Belew

And the greatest pity that the obscure lgala language is a borrowed and stolen mixture of the WaZoBia. — S.A. David

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed. — Ian McEwan

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at. — Bear Bryant

It was a debt that Peter could never fully repay: the debt of borrowed courage. — Justin Cronin

I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father. — Sunil Mittal

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time. — Maureen O'Hara

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. — Maurice Strong