Proverbs:

A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm.
Arabian
Better buy than borrow.
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Beware of borrowing: it bringeth care by night and disgrace by day.
Hindu
Borrowed garments never fit well.
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Borrowing brings care.
Dutch
Borrowing does well only once.
German
Borrowing is the canker and the death of every man’s estate.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Borrowing is the mother of trouble.
Hebrew
Borrowing makes sorrowing.
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Borrow not too much on time to come.
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Don’t borrow from a poor man.
Modern Greek
Don’t borrow on interest.
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Have a horse of thine own and thou mayst borrow another’s.
Welsh
He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss.
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He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
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He who is quick at borrowing is slow at paying.
German
He who let go his hold after climbing a tree, and he who borrowed money to lend came to grief.
Tamil
If you want to know what a ducat is worth try to borrow one.
Spanish
In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil.
French
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to repay.
Publius Syrus
Long borrowed is not given.
German
Much borrowing destroys the credit.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loseth both itself and friend.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Shakespeare
Scratching and borrowing do well enough but not for long.
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The borrower is a slave to the lender, the debtor to the creditor.
Franklin
When one borrows one cannot choose.
French
Who borrows easily? He who pays punctually.
Modern Greek
Who readily borrows, readily lies.
German
Who would borrow when he hath not let him borrow when he hath.
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Proverbs theme "Borrowing" in English
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