Nathan the Wise http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/natws10.txt (1779), Act II, scene II
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
I, who ne'er<br>Went for myself a begging, go a borrowing,<br>And that for others. Borrowing's much the same<br>As begging; just as lending upon usury<br>Is much the same as thieving. <br class="br">Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise (1779), Act II, scene II http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/natws10.txt <br class="br">Misattributed
“I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) English poet, and peer of the realm
Epigram, sometimes attributed to John Bromfield
Other
“6089. To borrow upon Usury, bringeth on Beggary.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book II, Ch. 16
Attributed
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 154
Storage and Stability (1937)
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
I've Been Waiting for You
Song lyrics, Neil Young (1968)
“Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed:”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss poet
As quoted in Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims (1831), p. 234
Context: Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 49, “The Nature of Wild Things” (p. 354)
