Borrowing Proverbs

Sayings about Borrowing

They bow to you when borrowing, you bow to them when collecting. ~ Russian Proverbs

Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. ~ Traditional Proverb

He who does not want to lend loses friends; he who lends gains enemies. ~ German Proverbs

Lend everyone your ears, give a hand to your friends but give your lips only to a woman. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend. ~ Dutch Proverbs

Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Swedish Proverbs

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. ~ American Proverbs

A borrowed mule soon gets a bad back. ~ Syrian Proverbs

Borrowed clothes are either too tight or too loose. ~ Filipino Proverbs

You only lend to rich people. ~ French Proverbs

During the battle you cannot lend your sword to anyone. ~ Bosnian Proverbs

If you lend something you may lose it, but not if you give it. ~ French Proverb

People lend only to the rich. ~ Traditional Proverb

You easily lend bread to the one who has flour. ~ French Proverb

Your friend lends and your enemy asks for payment. ~ Dutch Proverb

Borrowed bread lies heavy on the stomach. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs

Be sure not to owe anything to the rich, and don’t lend anything to the poor. ~ Portuguese Proverbs

Lending nourishes bad feeling. ~ Arabian Proverbs

Borrowed money shortens time; working for others lengthens it. ~ Chinese Proverb

He who lends to the poor get his interest from God. ~ German Proverb

Better to wash an old kimono than borrow a new one. ~ Japanese Proverbs

Happiness does not give, it only lends. ~ Danish Proverbs

A borrowed fiddle does not finish a tune. ~ Zimbabwean Proverb

Lending is the firstborn of poverty. ~ Nigerian Proverbs

If you want to know the value of money, go and borrow some. ~ Spanish Proverb

A borrower may not lend the thing he borrowed. ~ Hebrew Proverb

A borrowed coat does not keep one warm. ~ Egyptian Proverbs

Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tide. ~ Irish Proverbs

Borrowed garments never fit well. ~ Traditional Proverb

Don’t shoot people you hate; don’t lend to those you love. ~ Cambodian Proverb

If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again. ~ Portuguese Proverb

Borrowed wives, like borrowed books, are seldom returned. ~ American Proverb

Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. ~ Scottish Proverbs

If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat. ~ Finnish Proverbs

You can’t force anyone to love you or lend you money. ~ Jewish Proverbs

You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world’s goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are. ~ Heinrich Heine

Lend money to someone who won’t pay you back and he’ll hate you. ~ Chinese Proverb

Does your neighbor bore you? Lend him some money. ~ Italian Proverbs

Today must not borrow from tomorrow. ~ German Proverb

He who lends to a friend loses twice. ~ French Proverb

Quick to borrow is always slow to pay. ~ Traditional Proverb

Don’t worry if you borrow — worry if you lend. ~ Russian Proverb

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. ~ Portuguese Proverb

We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children. ~ Kenyan Proverbs

Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most. ~ American Proverb

He who is quick to borrow, is slow to pay. ~ German Proverb

The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, “I hope I will not find one”. ~ Malagasy Proverb

Your wife and your wheelbarrow — lend them to no one. ~ Luxembourg Proverb

If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back. ~ Iranian Proverb

Don’t borrow another’s nose to breathe with. ~ Thai Proverb

Lend to God and the earth — they both pay good interest. ~ Swedish Proverb

A borrowed cat catches no mice. ~ Japanese Proverb

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Quotations about Borrowing

The borrower runs in his own debt. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ~ Francois Rabelais

Loans and debts make worry and frets. ~ Author Unknown

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ~ Bible

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one’s own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further, either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus

Don’t be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed. ~ Author Unknown

The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them. ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ~ Doris Lessing

Debt is a bottomless sea. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. ~ Cicero

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. ~ Artemus Ward

And whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and, if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

The borrower is servant to the lender. ~ Bible

If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Don’t borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. ~ Lord Burleigh

People cannot live by lending money to one another. ~ John Ruskin

Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back. ~ Author Unknown

No remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. ~ William Shakespeare

Loan oft loses both itself and friend. ~ William Shakespeare