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| A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. Arabian. | 1 |
| Better buy than borrow. | 2 |
| Beware of borrowing: it bringeth care by night and disgrace by day. Hindu. | 3 |
| Borrowed garments never fit well. | 4 |
| Borrowing brings care. Dutch. | 5 |
| Borrowing does well only once. German. | 6 |
| Borrowing is the canker and the death of every man’s estate. Sir Walter Raleigh. | 7 |
| Borrowing is the mother of trouble. Hebrew. | 8 |
| Borrowing makes sorrowing. | 9 |
| Borrow not too much on time to come. | 10 |
| Don’t borrow from a poor man. Modern Greek. | 11 |
| Don’t borrow on interest. | 12 |
| Have a horse of thine own and thou mayst borrow another’s. Welsh. | 13 |
| He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss. | 14 |
| He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. | 15 |
| He who is quick at borrowing is slow at paying. German. | 16 |
| He who let go his hold after climbing a tree, and he who borrowed money to lend came to grief. Tamil. | 17 |
| If you want to know what a ducat is worth try to borrow one. Spanish, Portuguese. | 18 |
| In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil. French. | 19 |
| It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to repay. Publius Syrus. | 20 |
| Long borrowed is not given. German. | 21 |
| Much borrowing destroys the credit. | 22 |
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loseth both itself and friend.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Shakespeare. | 23 |
| Scratching and borrowing do well enough but not for long. | 24 |
| The borrower is a slave to the lender, the debtor to the creditor. Franklin. | 25 |
| When one borrows one cannot choose. French. | 26 |
| Who borrows easily? He who pays punctually. Modern Greek. | 27 |
| Who readily borrows, readily lies. German. | 28 |
| Who would borrow when he hath not let him borrow when he hath. | 29 |
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