Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.
Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be given combat missions. 10% of Americans moved in order to relocate for a war job. We as a country accomplished this heroic, nearly miraculous thing, and we have this legacy of policies and agency - how did they do it? How did they fund it? How did they organize it? It is actually an example that we can borrow from very productively to guide us.
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.
I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Never call a man a fool; borrow from him
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.
When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.
Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?
Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow. " So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
