Jonathan Carroll
Author
"Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated."
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Borrowed
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"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."
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money."
George Herbert
Poet
"True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence."
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"Borrowed garments never keep one warm."
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