Debt is a bottomless sea [ Carlyle ]
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. [ Cicero ]
The borrower runs in his own debt. [ Emerson ]
Who goes a-borrowing, goeth a-sorrowing. [ Thomas Tusser ]
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
He that trusts to borrowing ploughs will have his land lie fallow. [ Proverb ]
He that goes continually abroad a borrowing, shews he has little at home of his own. [ Proverb ]
Who borrow much, then fairly make it known, and damn it with improvements not their own. [ Young ]
To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. [ Dr. Johnson ]
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiary. [ Milton ]
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. [ William Shakespeare ]
The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them. [ Montaigne ]
Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. [ Horace ]
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's use. [ J. G. Holland ]
If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]
Few have borrowed more freely than Gray and Milton; but with a princely prodigality, they have repaid the obscure thoughts of others, with far brighter of their own - like the ocean, which drinks up the muddy water of the rivers from the flood, but replenishes them with the clearest from the shower. [ Colton ]