Borrowing Quotes

“The borrower is servant to the lender.”

“Croyez que chose divine est prester; debvoir est vertu heroïcque.”

“He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow money to be repaid at Easter.”

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

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“Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.”

“Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

“He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.”

“I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.”

“Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.”

“I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.”

“You give me back. Phœbus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phœbus, is my own.”

“What question can be here? Your own true heart
Must needs advise you of the only part:
That may be claim'd again which was but lent,
And should be yielded with no discontent,
Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,
That it was left us to enjoy it long.”