<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Borrowing - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4737]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4741]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phoebus, is my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend,  And borrowing dulleth edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend,  And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4746]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4756</guid></item></channel></rss>