Top 24 Borrowed Quotes - Quoted Daily

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

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

D.T. Suzuki

Grows, Borrowed

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

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

Emily Giffin

Dice, Things To Do, Borrowed

Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.272, Macmillan

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

Theo van Doesburg

Freedom, Mean, Borrowed

"The other face. To be". Book by Theo van Doesburg, Vol. XIIII, 75-6, p. 64, 1926.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Thomas Tusser

Debt, Borrowing, Borrowed Money

Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.2

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

Robert Recorde

Art, Mathematical, Borrowed

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

John French Sloan

Men, Imitation, Borrowed

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Nature, Borrowed, Has Beens

"Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims". Anonymous author, p. 234, 1831.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

John M. Ford

Debt, Pay, Borrowed Time

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

David Cameron

Reform, Too Much, Borrowed

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

Ronnie Montrose

Guitar, Broke, Borrowed

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

Jonathan Carroll

Kids, Borrowed, Exaggerated

Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.9, Open Road Media

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

Emily Giffin

Perfect, Borrowed

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

Ben Bernanke

Pay, Great Depression, Borrowed

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

Ian Mcewan

Borrowed, Knows

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

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Light, Borrowed

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.

Dale Carnegie

Ideas, Mines, Borrowed

Newsweek, August 08, 1955.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

Mason Cooley

Language, Borrowed

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

Tom Stoppard

Book, Borrowed, Ifs

Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.57, Faber & Faber

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

Steve Squyres

Past, Trying, Borrowed Time

I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.

Naomi Watts

Thinking, Careful, Borrowed Money

Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2008.