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. Charles Lamb
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. Josh Billings
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse;
borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease
is incurable. William Shakespeare (Falstaff, in Henry IV, Part 2, 1:ii)
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from – so must it be with a government. Abraham Lincoln
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare (Hamlet 1:iii)