To borrow upon usury
Brings on beggary. [ Proverb ]

Better buy than borrow. [ Proverb ]

Days, that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow. [ Richard Crashaw ]

Those laughing orbs, that borrow
From azure skies the light they wear.
Are like heaven - no sorrow
Can float over hues so fair. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Borrow not too much upon time to come. [ Proverb ]

You have no need to borrow confidence. [ Proverb ]

Would you know what money is, go borrow some. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He is rich enough that needs neither flatter nor borrow. [ Proverb ]

If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one. [ Proverb ]

Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love. [ Chamfort ]

To know man, borrow the ear of the blind and the eye of the deaf. [ Lavater ]

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee. [ Massinger ]

Those laughing orbs, that borrow from azure skies the light they wear. [ Frances S. Osgood ]

I had rather ask of my fire brown bread than borrow of my neighbour white. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value. [ Francis Quarles ]

Art is a gift of Heaven, yet does it borrow its fire from earthly passion. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

When a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. [ Goldsmith ]

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. [ Emerson ]

Who borrow much, then fairly make it known, and damn it with improvements not their own. [ Young ]

Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. [ Horace Mann ]

Live on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure--the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret. [ Johnson ]

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. [ C. Kingsley ]

The want of a more copious diction, to borrow a figure from Locke, is caused by our supposing that the mind is like Fortunatus's purse, and will always supply our wants, with out our ever putting anything into it. [ Bovee ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]

Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives, for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. [ Pascal ]

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]