Borrowed Quotes

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

Wife, Often, Both

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
John James Audubon

True, Children, Knows

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
Barack Obama

Best, Future, Done

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire

Nothing, Another, Writers

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

Book, Jesus, Put

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie

Time, Waiting, Live

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren G. Bennis

Cannot, Themselves, Ideas

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
Alan Greenspan

Money, End, Play

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Paul Ryan

Money, Debt, Wasted

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

Money, Future, Problem

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole

Knew, Improve, Vulgar

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
William J. Clinton

Best, America, Hold

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
Dee Dee Myers

Around, Flying, Reporter

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
Bryan Adams

Pride, Anybody, Took

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin

Death, Everything, Tell

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
Guy Fieri

Dad, Trying, Made

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.
Mike Huckabee

Money, Start, Off

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara

Birthday, Time, Die

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.
Mitch Daniels

Government, Rather, President

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Great, Knowledge, Science

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong

Future, Earth, Planet

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Life, Money, Sound

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
Emily Mortimer

Car, Husband, True

It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned 'Daredevil' into a crime comic.
Frank Miller

Amazing, Hell, Said

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock

Music, Jazz, Lent

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
Jennifer M. Granholm

Money, Home, Free

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
William J. H. Boetcker

Money, Cannot, Security

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Samuel Rutherford

God, Children, Die

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
Ivan Reitman

Film, Student, House

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Boz Scaggs

Music, Together, Learned

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