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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin
I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.
Aleksandr Lebed
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
Alfred de Vigny
It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.
Ben Gazzara
Herbie Hancock 
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Horace Walpole 
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin 
71% of people like this quote
I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.
Aleksandr Lebed
62% of people like this quote
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
59% of people like this quote
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
Alfred de Vigny
53% of people like this quote
It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.
Ben Gazzara
53% of people like this quote
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren G. Bennis
52% of people like this quote
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.
Samuel Rutherford
52% of people like this quote
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole
51% of people like this quote
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara
51% of people like this quote
Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
Alan Greenspan
51% of people like this quote
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