quotations about borrowing
Debt is a bottomless sea.
THOMAS CARLYLE
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations
The borrower is a servant to the lender.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 22:7
'Tis a very good world that we live in,
To lend, or to spend, or to give in;
But to beg or to borrow, or get a man's own,
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
JOHN WILMOT
Epigram
Always borrow from a pessimist--he never expects it back.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Nature hath created man to no other end but to lend and to borrow.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Works
Borrowing is not a revenue, and the repayment of debt is not an outlay.
UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
Federal Debt and Interest Costs, 1993
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
DORIS LESSING
attributed, Learning
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN
A Doll's House
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
THOMAS TUSSER
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
What a careless, even deportment hath your borrower! What rosy gills! What a beautiful reliance on Providence doth he manifest--taking no more thought than lilies! What contempt for money--accounting it (yours and mine especially) no better than dross!
CHARLES LAMB
The Essays of Elia
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
THOMAS TUSSER
June's Abstract
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.
HEINRICH HEINE
Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine
Do not be made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou hast nothing in thy purse; for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own life.
APOCRYPHA
Ben Sira 18:33
Long borrowed is not given.
GERMAN PROVERB
Borrowed books and umbrellas are seldom returned.
RUSKIN BOND
Funny Side Up
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Heartbreak House
You build on cost and you borrow on value.
PAUL REICHMANN
attributed, The Harper Book of Quotations
Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
WILL CUPPY
"I'm Not the Budget Type", Scribner's Magazine, December 1937
At some time to borrow, account it no shame,
If justly thou keepest they touch for the same:
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay,
Their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
By shifting and borrowing whoso as lives,
Not well to be thought on occasion gives:
Then lay to live warily and wisely to spend,
For prodigal livers have seldom good end.
THOMAS TUSSER, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
Where ease is sought, at length we see, there plenty waxeth scant,
Who careless live, go borrow must, or else full often want.
THOMAS TUSSER
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry