Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

World records are only borrowed.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

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

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

I've worn over 6,700 gowns. They're all borrowed gowns, designer samples.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

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

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

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

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.

If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

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