Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1754) : If you'd know the Value of Money, go and borrow some.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”
“370. Would you know what mony is, go borrow some.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.”
[Scribner's Magazine, 1937, CII, 6, 19-21, I'm Not the Budget Type, Will Cuppy]
"Duel" (1971), a short story, which he later adapted into a screenplay for Duel (1971), Steven Spielberg's first feature-length film.
Context: You never know, he thought. You just never know. You drift along, year after year, presuming certain values to be fixed; like being able to drive on a public thoroughfare without somebody trying to murder you. You came to depend on that sort of thing. Then something occurs and all bets are off. One shocking incident and all the years of logic and acceptance are displaced and, suddenly, the jungle is in front of you again. Man, part animal, part angel. Where had he come across that phrase? He shivered.
It was entirely an animal in that truck out there.
Peace Prize
2010s, Democracy Now! interview (2011)
“I know these writers, they say “borrow” when they mean “steal.””
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The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
Context: Be careful, Rahotep, I know these writers, they say “borrow” when they mean “steal.” You will soon read your words coming back to you on some privately circulated scroll of new verse.
“The words you can't find, you borrow.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
