they have many saying and practices such as "fruit of the barrow is enough for a borrible," "never stand behind a door when there's someone coming through the other side," "it is sad to pass through life without one good adventure," and "it is better to die young than to be caught." how long borribles can live is never made quite clear. one character in "the borribles" speaks of having been borribled in the time of "the old queen".