Sonny Bono
Musician, Actor, Politician
"Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it."
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Borrowing
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."
Henry Ford
Industrialist
"Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"Debt is a bottomless sea."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The borrower runs in his own debt."
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"Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on."
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"The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has."
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"We are borrowing $40,000 per second."
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"You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers."
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"Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence"
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