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Borrowing: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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 DISRAELI — Curiosities of

Literature. The Bibliomania. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 75.

What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part: That may be claim'd again which was but lent, And should be yielded with no discontent, Nor surely can we find herein a wrong, That it was left us to enjoy it long..— RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH — The

Lent Jewels. Who goeth a-borrowing, Goeth a-sorrowing.— TUSSER — Five Hundred Points of Good

Husbandry. June's Abstract. Who borrow much, then fairly make it known, And damn it with improvements of their own.— YOUNG — Love of Fame. Satire III. L. 23.