Borrowing Quotes

“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

“When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.”
― Jennifer Egan

“A borrower who doesn't returns is a beggar.”
― Amit Kalantri

“If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Banks are nothing but old fashioned money lenders. They encourage you to borrow, to get in debt, and when you can't pay back the loan they take your home away. At least a money lender only breaks your legs.”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“all loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

“I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.”
― Stefne Miller, Collision

“For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.”
― Amit Kalantri

“There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan. The banker is not giving something for nothing.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

“The little children of my brain may be weakly
enough, and may be sadly in want of a helping hand to aid them in their first attempts at walking on the stage
of this great world; but, at any rate, they are not borrowed children.”
― Wilkie Collins, After Dark

“Borrowed books and umbrellas are seldom returned”
― Ruskin Bond, Funny Side Up

“Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

“The present presses automatically on you. The future does not. To attend to the future requires bandwidth, which scarcity taxes. When scarcity taxes our bandwidth, we become even more focused on the here and now. We need cognitive resources to gauge future needs, and we need executive control to resist present temptations. As it taxes our bandwidth, scarcity focuses on the present, and leads us to borrow.”
― Sendhil Mullainathan, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

“If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?
The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to borrow?
From a snake-shed-skin or from the sky unknown
In all living and the dead I'll dwell to groan”
― Munia Khan

“It is inevitable that any one who can borrow freely to cover errors of management will borrow rather than correct the errors.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“Preserving cultural diversity is considered a supreme virtue today, but the members of the diverse subcultures don't always see it that way. People have wants and needs, and when cultures rub shoulders, people in one culture are bound to notice when their neighbors are satisfying those those desires better than they are. When they do notice, history tells us, they shamelessly borrow wherever works best.”
― Stephen Pinker

“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books, but the grew up in the Depression, aware of the quicksilver nature of money, and they learned the hard way that you shouldn't buy what you could borrow. Because of that frugality, or perhaps independent of it, they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“The infamous Debt-To-Income ratio is the standard formula most lenders use to determine a potential borrowers capacity. Lenders calculate this by adding up a borrower’s total monthly debt payments and dividing that by the borrowers gross monthly income.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing

“There’s a best time for everything – including the acquisition of capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing

“Borrow a little and if you can't pay it back, it's your problem. Borrow a lot and if you can't pay it back, it's the lenders problem.”
― Willi Way

“Borrowing and lending carry equal weight of sorrow. But your sorrow weighs more when you lend what you borrowed.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Whatever you lent has ceased to be yours until it’s returned to you.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Some creditors will sing blues to lure you into debt and when you put on you dancing shoes, you’ll be compelled to dance electric shock.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Borrowing today to pay tomorrow is harrowing; loan sharks will arrow your marrow till sorrow wash over you.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books, but they grew up in the Depression, aware of the quicksilver nature of money, and they learned the hard way that you shouldn't buy what you could borrow. Because of that frugality, or perhaps independent of it, they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Borrowing money from a friend,
Always Interrupts the friendship flow,
Especially after missing the payment deadline,
More than two weeks in a row”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“If every bank is a planet; LIBOR is the sun in the solar system of banking solidarity.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B

“Money borrowing and money lending are two evil friends that separate two good friends.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Best beggars are the ones who borrow.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Na nieśmiałą uwagę pani Stawskiej: dlaczego nie żyje z familią? — baronowa odpowiedziała:
— Z jaką, kochana pani? Ja już nie mam nikogo, a choćbym nawet miała, nie
mogłabym przyjmować u siebie ludzi tak chciwych i ordynarnych. Familia zaś mego
męża wypiera się mnie, gdyż nie pochodzę ze szlachty; co im zresztą nie przeszkadzało
wytumanić ode mnie ze dwieście tysięcy rubli. Dopóki pożyczałam im na wieczne
nieoddanie, politykowali ze mną; ale gdy się opatrzyłam, zerwali stosunki i nawet
oni to namawiali mego nieszczęśliwego męża, ażeby położył mi areszt na majątku. O,
co ja przeżyłam z tymi ludźmi!… — dodała płacząc.”
― Bolesław Prus, Lalka