Borrowed Quotes - Page 5

• It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

  Joe Bradley

  Landscape, Paint, Turns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

  Maria Mitchell

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform.

  David Cameron

  Reform, Too Much, Roadblock

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• We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Song, Children, Book

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Independent, Light

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as we have historical assurance that the chapters in Matthew's gospel which contain the miraculous birth are an after addition not in the earliest manuscripts, it seems probable that these two poetical chapters in Luke may also be unhistorical, and borrowed from the Egyptian accounts of the miraculous births of their kings.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Kings, Two, Historical

  Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.19

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• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Doubt

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• Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Imitation, Wit, Poorest

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• Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

  Mary McCarthy

  Blue, Europe, Looks

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Beautiful, Skins, Modesty

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.125, Library of America

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• Borrowed illusions are better than none.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Illusion

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
  To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.

  William Cowper

  Art, Modest, Virgins

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems”, p.76

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Return, Forget, Theft

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• Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

  James Russell Lowell

  Plagiarism, Garments, Warm

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69

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• Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Attitude, Glasses

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• A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Taken, Law, Wish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Talking

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Genius, Originality, Poetic

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.251, Delphi Classics

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• Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

  Kevin Plank

  Mother, Self, Entrepreneur

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• Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Grows

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

  Meher Baba

  Strength, Greatness, Weakness

  Meher Baba's message dictated to Sanjeeva Reddy at Guruprasad (June 6, 1960), as quoted in Charles Benjamin Purdom "The God Man: The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of His Silence and Spiritual Teaching" (p. 353), December 25, 1964.

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• They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

  Michael Lewis

  Soccer, Country, Team

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.

  Ninian Smart

  Yoga, Buddhism, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was very kind.

  Jared Leto

  Nice, Thinking, Kind

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub. ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Hero, Science, Suffering

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