Definition of Borrowed

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Definition of Borrowed
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Borrowed Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Borrowed Translations

borrowed in German is entlehnte, geliehen, borgte
borrowed in Latin is mutuo

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