Borrower Quotes

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. (William Shakespeare)

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

John Milton

An housbande can not well thryue by his come without he haue other cattell, nor by his cattell without come. For els he shall be a byer, a borrower or a beggar.

Anthony Fitzherbert

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

William Shakespeare

Lending a favorite book has its risks; the borrower may not like it. I still don't know a better novel than Crime and Punishment-still, every fourth or fifth borrower returns it unfinished: it depresses him; besides that, he didn't believe it. More borrowers than this return the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past unfinished: they were bored. There is no book you can lend people that all of them will like.

Randall Jarrell

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

Jack Kemp

Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score?

Mark Zandi

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.

Dudley North

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing. (Peter Orszag)

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Alan Greenspan

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.

Muhammad Yunus

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The book borrower . . . proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures . . . as by his failure to read these books.

Walter Benjamin

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Ernest Rutherford