Neither a borrower nor a lender be;

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Who goeth a borrowing

Goeth a sorrowing.

Thomas Tusser (Circa 1515-1580): Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. June's Abstract.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.