Top 125 Borrow Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Borrow Quotes from famous people such as Norm Crosby, Iain Duncan Smith, Charlie Munger, Philip Kerr, Brigham Young, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I would watch 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and borrow a few l

I would watch ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor’s birthday ball or mayor’s dinner.
Norm Crosby
The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls’ office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
Iain Duncan Smith
A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn’t have rules that prevent it.
Charlie Munger
I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.
Philip Kerr
Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else but what belongs to you – and if you find anything that is not your own, do not hide it away, but report it, that the owner may be found.
Brigham Young
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
Abu Bakar Bashir
There’s a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it’s not working for you – and if you leave your job, you’ll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.
Jean Chatzky
I’ve been lucky enough that some designers let me borrow their dresses to wear to events. And companies such as So Low and Tart have given me items to wear to rehearse in. I wish I could take more credit for the clothes that I get to wear!
Cheryl Burke
I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
Rashida Jones
It doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
Leon Panetta
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
Paul Krugman
The journalistic and political classes are very eager to borrow the cultural authority of comedians when it suits them, sending out gala invitations and posing for photos in hopes that a bit of that edgy satirical shine will rub off on them.
Adam Conover
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin
To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.
Martin Feldstein
Mary-Kate and Ashley, who played Michelle, were great. I miss them, I love them, and I need to borrow some money from them.
John Stamos
When you’re playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
Lorraine Toussaint
I feel like I have to create the Keith Whitley sound. That doesn’t mean I can’t borrow from the people I grew up listening to, but it doesn’t serve any purpose to sing the same kind of songs they sang. When you do that, it’s going to come out sounding like an imitation, whether it’s meant to or not.
Keith Whitley
All my songs usually borrow from my own life but pull from fantasy or other people’s stories that you hear, or something you read. It’s fun as a writer to pull from all those different places, and to connect them. But also, I don’t have an interesting enough life to strictly pull from that.
Samuel Ervin Beam
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits ’em together. You got some sugar and I don’t; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I’ll give you some of mine.
Ray Charles
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska
I own a car: a minivan. But don’t tell anyone, ’cause they’re gonna ask to borrow it.
Ad-Rock
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
Lee Iacocca
About two-thirds of bachelor’s degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they’re graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
Arne Duncan
Every dollar the government doesn’t spend, tax, or borrow is a dollar that businesses and families can spend or invest themselves.
Stephen Moore
The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn’t sound kosher. Because it isn’t.
John Podhoretz
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.
Roger Ebert
When I’m cruising around on my bike, I feel completely free, but I share my possessions. My friends can always borrow my motorcycles. Even if they end up crashing them, it’s OK with me.
Fabio Lanzoni
I didn’t own a guitar when I was in the Germs. I would just borrow one from the opening band.
Pat Smear
The U.N. doesn’t have any troops; we borrow them from governments.
Kofi Annan
I’ve stolen licks from just about every person that ever picked up a guitar. We all borrow from one another; it’s called legitimate stealing.
J. J. Cale
I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C.
Chris Diamantopoulos
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not si

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks.
Scott Turow
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
Philip Emeagwali
We will pay the debts by growing and exporting… The only way is to export. The other channel has been exhausted, which is to borrow.
Alberto Fernandez
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
I borrow bits from everyone.
Janice Dickinson
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean
Some people are lucky enough to borrow money from their parents, but that shouldn’t determine whether you can pursue your dreams.
Julian Castro
God did not say that you should be able to borrow one hundred percent of the price of a house.
Richard Thaler
Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded to spend the money wildly and borrow even more extravagantly on public works and other uneconomic forms of ‘investment.’
Murray Rothbard
Don’t borrow someone else’s spectacles to view yourself with.
Simon Travaglia
When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.
Mario J. Molina
On a recent trip to New York, I bought myself a seriously denim jacket that my daughter begged to borrow. I refused! They are so cavalier with my stuff, the kids – Oh my god, I am turning into my mother!
Shweta Bachchan Nanda
We’ve had to pay to play. We’ve had to borrow kit. We’ve had to train on a Friday night. Maybe a lot of boys, given that opportunity, would slip away, whereas we’ve had the mentality to go, ‘I really want this. I’m going to show that I can do this.’
Steph Houghton
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
Thomas Tusser
Where ignorance is bliss it’s foolish to borrow your neighbor’s newspaper.
Kin Hubbard
Nicki Minaj thanked me on the first mixtape that she put out. She shouted me out, said thank you for allowing her to borrow my English accent sometimes. And honestly, a lot of people have told me that I’ve influenced them.
Monie Love
DWYCK’ was only intended to be a B-side of ‘Take It Personal,’ because we had done a record with Nice & Smooth for their album, Ain’t a Damn Thing Changed, called ‘Down The Line.’ They were returning the favor with ‘DWYCK,’ being that we let them borrow the ‘Manifest’ instrumental.
DJ Premier
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.
Solomon Burke
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
William Hazlitt
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James Nicoll
In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would ‘borrow’ my forecast from The Weather Channel.
Emily Procter
There isn’t a bank in the world that could withstand a run. They all borrow short and lend long, regardless of what they say.
Wilbur Ross
As a psychologist, I’m painstakingly careful not to borrow my clients’ stories for my fiction – but in a general sense, I’m very much inspired by all the teenagers I’ve been lucky enough to know and work with.
Becky Albertalli
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul