Borrowers Quotes

• Russia will honour its international commitments. Our country is a reliable borrower, a reliable creditor and a reliable supplier. Sanctions come and go, but business ties, economic interests and the reputation of a state remain

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Commitment, Russia

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

  Richard Heber

  Book, Gentleman, Three

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Philosophical, Lenders

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

  Morris L. Ernst

  Littles, Shoulders, Borrowing

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• I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Mean, Odd

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races of Men'

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• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Men, Priorities

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Rats, Common

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 81, Curiosities of Literature, The Bibliomania, 1922.

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• Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

  John Turner

  Party, Law, Debtors

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• Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Money, Business

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• For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

  John Milton

  Kind, Plagiarism, Borrowing

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• Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score?

  Mark Zandi

  Jobs, Doe, Income

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• The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Treasure, Prove

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• Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

  John Ruskin

  Money, War, Evil

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.22

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• Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

  Mary Norton

  Stories, Goes On, Sometimes

  Mary Norton (1989). “The Borrowers”, Sandpiper

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• We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Philosophy, Philosophical, World

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• Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

  George R. R. Martin

  Generosity, Your Generosity

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• The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Debtors, Slave

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.272, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.

  Robin Williams

  Hunters, Used, Hunter Gatherers

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• Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could be lent. The bank then got interest. The borrower then had a deposit that he could spend. But the original deposit still stood to the credit of the original depositor. That too could be spent. Money, spendable money, had been created. Let no one rub his or her eyes. It's still being done-every day. The creation of money by a bank is as simple as this, so simple, I've often said, that the mind is slightly repelled.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Eye, Simple, Discovery

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• Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Mean, Unique, Decision

  "Muhammad Yunus and Bangladesh government battle over Grameen Bank" by Syed Zain Al-Mahmood, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2012.

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• I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Wrestling

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• When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan. It does not take this money from anyone else's deposit; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It's new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.

  Robert B. Anderson

  Doe, Add, Use

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• Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Stupid, Believe

  "Decline with a Chance of Fall" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

  Wendell Phillips

  Beauty, Writing, Matter

  Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

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