Top 263 Borrowing Quotes & Sayings

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Reading means borrowing.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

Our role as producers is mainly limited to borrowing money from friends when we run short of cash.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

We are borrowing $40,000 per second.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs.

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

I can tell when my brother's been borrowing my CDs.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

Borrowing isn't inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing.

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

We should, as a country, be very concerned about our borrowing cost.

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.

I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

When government borrowing and spending go up, private borrowing and spending go down.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.