Quotes on Borrowing

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.