Borrow Quotes

• Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Money
  • Back
  • Expect

• Paid my phone bill. I had to borrow seven times what it was to pay the bill.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Phone
  • Bill
  • Borrow

• The best quote about songwriting I ever heard, that I borrow to tell people, was from John Lennon, that it’s like a sculpture. You look at this block of stone and imagine that you can see some form within it, and you just keep chipping away until it is revealed.

  

  Boney James
  • Imagine
  • Songwriting
  • Sculpture

• I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,

  

  Peter Campbell McNeish Buzzcocks
  • Friend
  • Car
  • Charles

• Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • High
  • Trouble
  • Interest

• We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Chrysler

• I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Kids
  • Borrow
  • Occasionally

• But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Future
  • Trouble
  • Forward

• 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
  • Army
  • Borrow
  • Respectfully

• 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
  • Necessity
  • Case
  • Borrow

• It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

  

  John Milton
  • Words
  • Bible
  • Hath

• Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Consistently
  • Borrow
  • Teleology

• As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Interest
  • Undertakes

• We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Crisis
  • Debt
  • Governments

• The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally, essentially would be the death knell to the US Dollar as the reserve currency. It means the US can't borrow with 'exorbitant privilege' anymore, and it means the US Treasury market is set for an out-of-control interest rate spiral.

  

  Addison Wiggin
  • Borrow
  • Treasury
  • PetroDollar

• All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him, and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Business
  • Alive

• Leverage is great when it works, and when it doesn't work, it creates a lot of issues. So I think if you limit the amount of leverage that people can borrow, or that banks can borrow, I think you'll find that you'll have a lot less issues going forward.

  

  Marc Lasry
  • People
  • Think
  • Issues

• When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Character
  • Borrow
  • Pawn

• Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Born
  • Souls
  • Borrow

• Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Words
  • Need
  • Useful

• We had to beg, borrow and steal for everything we put in a show.

  

  David Jenkins
  • Show
  • Put
  • Borrow

• Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Birthday
  • Elephant
  • Borrow

• Opening a small business is a reasonable thing for you to do but should tax payer, should an ordinary worker have to pay more money in taxes because someone across the street from them opened up a business which might well go under? For a lot of people opening a business is a bad choice for them. Most small businesses fail. I understand people wanting to give it a try and everything but we're not necessarily doing them a favor to say, take all your life savings, borrow to the hilt, and then struggle for three years and end up with nothing. We're not necessarily doing them a favor.

  

  Dean Baker
  • Struggle
  • Favor
  • Small Business

• Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

  

  Simon Travaglia
  • View
  • Borrow
  • Spectacles

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