George Borrow Quotes

#1. Two well-worn volumes by George Borrow, Lavengro and Romany Rye. The two books are an account of Borrow's time among the Gypsies and what he learned there, and I was delighted.

Louis L'Amour

#2. Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.

George Henry Borrow

#3. I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.

George Herbert

#4. Words are weapons, and it is dangerous ... to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

George Santayana

#5. I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

George Borrow

#6. We must walk before we run.

George Henry Borrow

#7. Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Edward Bond

#8. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

George Borrow

#9. What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

George Will

#10. Two great talkers will not travel far together.

George Borrow

#11. A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

George Borrow

#12. Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

George Herbert

#13. There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

George Henry Borrow

#14. There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

George Borrow

#15. If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

Anne Stuart

#16. It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

Rumer Godden

#17. Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

George Will

#18. There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.

George Borrow

#19. I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.

George Henry Borrow

#20. Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble.

George Washington

#21. Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.

George Henry Borrow

#22. Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?

Richard Bachman

#23. Sherry ... a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

George Henry Borrow

#24. When the choice is debt or death, best borrow.

George R R Martin

#25. The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

George Henry Borrow

#26. Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

George Borrow

#27. I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

Angie Stone

#28. Translation is at best an echo.

George Borrow

#29. Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

George Borrow

#30. It is your choice," he said, so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job.

Robert Thier

#31. If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

George Henry Borrow

#32. It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

George Borrow

#33. Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

Serge Schmemann

#34. Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.

George Santayana

#35. I finally accepted Jesus. not as my personal savior, but as a man I intend to borrow money from.

George Carlin

#36. In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.

Anthony Kennedy