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“Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.”

Helping Would Be Names Borrowing

Author:Will Cuppy

“I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.”

Wells Pay Honest Debt Plenty Widows Orphan Borrowing Widows And Orphans

Author:Will Cuppy

“The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit... People understandably feel more confident about their future than they've done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less... Coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it's all been just a bit too much of a good thing.”

“Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.”

Love Is My Friends Debt Payment Borrowing Friend Love

Author:William Dunbar

“What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.”

People Able Exciting Hopefully Polish Borrowing

Author:Theo de Raadt

“The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely free of debt, seems to me to impose some limitation on the validity of the theory that by borrowing we should, or could, pass on the burden of development to the next generation.”

Way Should Facts Seems Next Generations Theory Development Burden Debt Limitation Etc Heritage Next Generation Port Borrowing Validity Previous Generations

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.”

Government Running Process Economy Balance Circumstances Pressure Etc More Money Reserves Severe Taxation Inflation Deficit Payment Monetary Borrowing Financing

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.”

Should Wells Stills Funny Deals Members Congress Chinese Uniforms Olympics Embarrassing Disgrace Embarrassment Furious Borrowing London Olympics Borrowing Money

Author:Jay Leno

“Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.”

People Government Suffering Poor Middle Taxes Lows Workers Burden Spending Income Inflation Borrowing Deceitful Government Spending Tax Burden

Author:Ron Paul

“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.”

Way Years Humans Said Bits Land Civilization China Oil Borrowing Persian Human Civilization Persian Gulf Borrowing Money

Author:Al Gore

“The borrower runs in his own debt.”

Running Debt Borrowing Borrowers

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.”

Forget Return Articles Petty Theft Borrowed Borrowing

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.”

I Can Ideas Taxes Spending Borrowing Raising Taxes

Author:Chris Matthews

“I borrowed my friends 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.”

Firsts Three Car Needed Husband My Friends My Husband Tickets Borrowed Borrowing

Author:Emily Mortimer

“People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.”

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.”

Art Ideas Greater Heard Originals Entertainment Painter Superiority Borrowing Original Ideas Whistler

Author:Oscar Wilde

“To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.”

Looks Hands Motivational Optimism Borrowing

Author:Edward Everett Hale

“Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.”

People Sometimes States Forget Issues Records Example Majors Voting Schemes Conservatism Legislature Borrowing Pension State Legislatures

Author:Leonard Lance

“The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.”

Wind Blow Chinese Owners Borrowing Disgusted Electorate Precious Life Borrowing Money

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.”

Language Doubt Tradition Dear Greek No Doubt Latin Handsome Ornaments Borrowing

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.”

Years Amount Cost Assets More Money Unlimited Borrowing Treasury

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.”

“I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money. I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.”

People Believe Country Reason Use Government I Believe Changed Demand Sitting Logic Blame Congress Connected Justify Federal Government Borrowing Idiotic

Author:Wright Patman

“You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.”

Thinking Should Mean Today Order Individual Nations Tomorrow Periods Bounds Limitation Preserves Borrowing

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.”

Said Lord Millions Information Drug Rewards Capture Mexico Offering Billionaire Borrowing

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.”

Men Every Man Estates Borrowing

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

“It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.”

Asks Poor Money Easier Wealthy Borrowing

Author:Anton Chekhov

“You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.”

Ifs World Way Needs Reason Would Be Interest This World Ought Amount Smart Investing Significant Good Times Lots Of Money Having A Good Time Borrowed Borrowing

Author:Warren Buffett

“We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.”

Millions Minutes Projects Court Dollars Million Dollars Borrowing Bankruptcy

Author:Rand Paul

“The other day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot remember any day when we have had more fun on a stream. We had along with us three newspaper men and a few secret service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so we did the thing up right by borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn meal from the wife of your rancher - and we cooked an outdoor meal for the crowd. It was really quite a day.”

People Men Remember Three Fun Sports Secret Wife Crowds Newspapers Meals Streams Fishing Corn Borrowing Trout Frying Secret Service Ranchers Frying Pans

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences.”

People Ifs Doe Government Courses Nations Deals Politician Taxes Percent Consequence Method Available Income Taxation Deficit Down The Road Borrowing Indirect

Author:Milton Friedman

“I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.”

Kind Mother Pay Proud Bills Broke Uncomfortable Flats Borrowing Borrowing Money

Author:Marc Cherry

“The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.”

Giving Government Giving Up Addiction Spending Borrowing Wasteful Spending

Author:Julie Bishop

“Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence”

Ifs Stuff Eloquence Borrowed Borrowing

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.”

Men Way Trying Realizing Company Path Germany Britain Insult Great Men Mutual Imitation Borrowing Mutual Respect

Author:William Joyce

“In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'”

Want Lasts Heard Months Chocolate Manhattan Borrowing Junkie Jargon

Book:A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses

“By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK has been borrowing like crazy since 1694, when the Bank of England was invented. This means that we are locked into high taxation to pay for 300 years of wars and other costly and generally disastrous state enterprises.”

Years Mean Has Beens War States Interest Pay Crazy England Slavery Enterprise Locked Taxation Loan Borrowing Repayment

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.”

Thinking Believe Art Action Earth Inspire Don't Believe Deeds Who We Are Originality Our Actions Borrowing

Author:Bill Viola

“We are borrowing $40,000 per second.”

Author:Rand Paul

“Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.”

Mind Reality Age Together Study Source Highest Enlightenment Enlightened Take A Chance Borrowing Being Together Science Of Mind Enlightenment And Love

Book:Living Without Fear

Source: Living Without Fear

“I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.”

Men Felt My Own Accepting Holy Shapes Europe East Avoided Theft Borrowing Holy Man

Author:Carl Jung

“If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.”

People Ifs Want Years Done Past Remember Interest Millions Rate Gentleman Fewer Contrast Cents Delivery Borrowing Interest Rate

Author:Tony Blair

“We're a me-me-me generation. We're borrowing the savings of every nation in the world. We're ... piling up a big tab. Now, I may think we're too big to have a run on us. You may think that. But it's possible that God does not.”

Thinking World May Doe Bigs Running Nations Generations Saving Savings Borrowing

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.”

Littles Ideas Fall Responsibility Effects Mass Plant Workers Population Old Fashioned Assembly Borrowed Borrowing Slums Dwellers

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.”

World Spirituality Sound Silence Birth Impact Ancient Rhythm Radical Timeless Embedded Borrowing World Music

Author:Rami M. Shapiro

“Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.”

Bigs Next Practice Generations Dangerous Standing Army Paid Spending Stealing Next Generation Borrowing Spending Money

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.”

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.”

Interest Worst Type Percent Rate Credit Cards Cash Credit Card Borrowing Interest Rate

Author:Suze Orman

“We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?”

Should Next Chinese Greek Borrowing Bail Bailouts Borrowing Money

Author:Jeb Hensarling

“Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.”

People Government Taxes Spending Finance Efficient Currency Borrowing Government Spending

Author:Richard Wagner