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Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus
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A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth.—Bible, Psalms 112:5
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The borrower is servant to the lender.—Bible, Proverbs 22:7
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Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.—BULWER-LYTTON, Caxtonia
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I hae naething to lend—
I'll borrow frae naebody.—BURNS, I Hae a Wife
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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.—ISAAC DISRAELI, Curiosities of Literature
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He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
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It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.—SIR PHILIP GIBBS
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The biggest businessmen in the world today are borrowers.—ELBERT HUBBARD,
Advertising and Advertisements
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Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serene:—
A woman to thy wife, though she were a crowned queen;
And the second, borrowed money,—though the smiling lender say
That he will not demand the debt until the Judgment Day.—IBN JEMIN, Epigram
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.—IBSEN, A Doll's House
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.—CHARLES LAMB, The Two Races of Men
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Borrowing is not much better than begging.—LESSING, Nathan der Weise
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Better buy than borrow.—Proverb
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He begs at them that borrowed at him.—Proverb
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He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss.—Proverb
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He that lends, gives.—Proverb
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.—RABELAIS
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done, and all unjust war protracted.—RUSKIN, The Crown of Wild Olive
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Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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In low simplicity
He lends out money gratis and brings down
The rate of usance here with us in Venice.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
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If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
But lend it rather to thine enemy;
Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face
Exact the penalty.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
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Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.—THOMAS TUSSER, 500 Points of Good Husbandry
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.—MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.—ARTEMUS WARD, Natural History
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God bless pawnbrokers!
They are quiet men.—MARGUERITE WILKINSON, Pawnbrokers
