
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland
Lecture: The Lost Arts, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland
“We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.”
Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914)<!--PWW 29:364-->
1910s
Variant: I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow
Context: I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.
“What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?”
Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.”
Introduction to New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert Silverberg
Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914)
1910s
Quoted in Khrushchev Remembers (1970), p. 474
“Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.”
Source: True to Form