Borrow

Famous quotes containing the word borrow:

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

“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

“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)