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Letter "B" » Borrowing
"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the
lender."
Author: Bible
About: Borrowing
"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."
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
About: Borrowing
"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."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
About: Borrowing
"You give me back, Phoebus, 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, Phoebus, is my own."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
About: Borrowing
"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."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
About: Borrowing
"Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic
virtue."
Author: Francois Rabelais
About: Borrowing
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Borrowing
"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."
Author: Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench
About: Borrowing
"Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
- Thomas Tusser,"
Author: Thomas Tusser
About: Borrowing
"Borrowed garments never fit well."
Author: Proverb
About: Borrowing
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