Borrowing

Borrowing is receiving something from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. The person doing the borrowing is often considered to have incurred a debt to the lender.

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 * Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
 * Matthew 5:42, King James Bible


 * Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
 * 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.
 * Retrieved on June 25, 2012.
 * Retrieved on June 25, 2012.


 * He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow money to be repaid at Easter.
 * Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1783).

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 81.


 * 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 D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, The Bibliomania.


 * 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.
 * Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book I, Epistle 75.


 * 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.
 * Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book IX, Epistle 102.


 * 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.
 * Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XII, Epistle 79.


 * The borrower is servant to the lender.
 * Proverbs, XXII. 7.


 * Croyez que chose divine est prester; debvoir est vertu heroïcque.
 * Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
 * François Rabelais, Pantagruel (1532), Book III, Chapter IV.


 * Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 3, line 75.


 * 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.
 * Richard Chenevix Trench, The Lent Jewels.


 * Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. Few lend (but fools) Their working tools.
 * Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, September's Abstract; first lines also in June's Abstract.