Top 412 Borrowed Quotes & Sayings

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

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

When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

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

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

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

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets

I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.

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

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

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

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

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

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

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

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

The idea for Chipotle is a sort of combination of food borrowed from Stars and sort of a technique and a service format borrowed from the taquerias.

You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

World records are only borrowed.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

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

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

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

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

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

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

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

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

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

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

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

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

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

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

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

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

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

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

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

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

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

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

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of it, I do not own this life; it is borrowed. Why should I fear its loss or the loss of anything else in this world when I must surrender it all anyway?

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

You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.