Borrow

Famous quotes containing the word borrow:

“How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life’s abundance.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“They borrow words for thoughts they cannot feel,
That with a seeming heart their tongue may speak;
And in their show of life more dead they live
Than those that to the earth with many tears they give.”
—Jones Very (1831–1880)