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Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent. — William Dunbar

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale. — Douglas Alexander

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock. — Stanley Druckenmiller

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?' — Diane Ackerman

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time. — Elizabeth Berg

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies. — Oren Peli

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch. — Will Cuppy

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule. — Arne Duncan

Reading means borrowing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

SOAP is like a mortgage while REST is like borrowing $10 from a friend. — Anonymous

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone. — Juvenal

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere. — Rand Paul

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another. — Henry Ford

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing. — Margaret Thatcher

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

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning. — Wilbur Ross

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. — Julie Bishop

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money. — Jack Dangermond

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money — George Washington

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. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing. — Peter Orszag

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. — Doris Lessing

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. — Alex Berenson

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done. — Meredith Whitney

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function. — Roger Altman

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy. — Charles Alexandre De Calonne

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved. — Dai Sijie

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. — Benjamin Franklin

The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today. — Dave Ramsey

Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on. — Kin Hubbard

Tessa Herondale Carstairs," he whispered. "You should never worry about borrowing my name when you know that you can have it to keep. — Cassandra Clare

In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones. - PABLO NERUDA — Mark Nepo

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something. — Kelley Armstrong

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. — Haruki Murakami

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. — William Shakespeare

Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status. — Andrea Leadsom

No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. — Sonny Bono

A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing. — Michel De Montaigne

Oh, Hell's gates!" Annia cried, borrowing Vix's favorite curse. — Kate Quinn

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing. — Kenneth Rogoff

You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers. — Lauren Conrad

Borrowing Hans Burger's clever introduction to his expansive treatment of union with Christ, "To be or not to be - in Christ - that is the question. — David B Garner

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most. — Joe Moore

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile. — Timothy McVeigh

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing. — Auliq Ice

In borrowing from a food culture, pay attention to how a culture eats as well as to what it eats. — Michael Pollan

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt. — Thomas Frank

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already. — Paul Ryan

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. — Alfred Korzybski

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it. — Theo De Raadt

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. — Martial

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. — George Bernard Shaw

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

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

We are borrowing $40,000 per second. — Rand Paul

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. — Ray Bradbury

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb. — Laurie Simmons

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

Borrowing from cultures without understanding the fundamentals can yield some pretty weird and wholly illogical perversions. — Tim Gunn

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. — Mark Twain

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — William Shakespeare

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. — Mark Udall

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow. — Ralph W. Sockman

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing. — B. Barmanbek

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills. — Chelsea Handler

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

A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more. — Suze Orman

The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again. — Ruth Ozeki

It is well said that we're just borrowing this planet from our children - and what kind of condition are we going to return it in when we pass on? — Tom Walsh

But borrowing strength builds weakness. — Stephen R. Covey

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas. — Peter DeFazio

The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them? — T.A

I'm not stealing it. We're stranded. This is called borrowing."
"This is called you're crazy. — Becca Fitzpatrick

One stipulation to my borrowing your clothes is that you have to have worn the item at least once before I borrow it. I'm not a monster. — Mindy Kaling

My idea of vacuuming is borrowing someone's dog for the day and having them eat all the crap off the floor. — Karina Halle

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas. — Kody Chamberlain

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser

I know I'm only borrowing it. I know I have to give Summer back to you. Just as you, have to give Winter, back to me. — Pleasefindthis

Life was complicated enough without borrowing trouble. — Raine Miller

Sex should be about mutual enjoyment, connection, the borrowing from another's fire at a moment when you want it most. — Alessandra Torre

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts? — Jeb Hensarling

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend. — Oliver Goldsmith

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington. — Paul Ryan

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

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity. — Paul Ryan

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back. — Edgar Watson Howe

As long as we keep our fundamentals strong ... the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine. — Lawrence Summers

Nothing could be gained by worrying and dreading the future, borrowing tomorrow's pain for today. — Karen Kingsbury

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. — Henry Rollins