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

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

Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
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Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
- Thomas Tusser,

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents
besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not read more

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.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do read more

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

He who borrows sells his freedom

He who borrows sells his freedom

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease
to ask of me. He who read more

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease
to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have
nothing to refuse.

He who borrows sells his freedom.

He who borrows sells his freedom.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand
sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. read more

You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand
sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one
else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay
you, Phoebus, is my own.