A Quote by Bennett Madison

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

Bennett Madison

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Borrowers End In The End Only Thieves

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Bennett Madison
American - Author
Born: March 28, 1981

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Wendell Phillips

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

Clive Barker

Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

H. W. L. Poonja

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Mahatma Gandhi

What you want to watch are the lenders, not the borrowers. The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It's up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

Michael Burry

Too often, borrowers who need quick cash end up trapped in loans they can't afford.

Richard Cordray

Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.

Bashar al-Assad

I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

Larry David

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

Margaret Fell

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Francis Quarles

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

W. C. Fields

To many in the global community, American business - especially our financial institutions - are seen as a bunch of thieves, and as the saying goes, 'There's no honor among thieves.'

Mark Goulston

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

Sonia Johnson

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?