Quotes about debt

"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."

Barrymore, John on debt   

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Beecher, Henry Ward on debt   

"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."

Benedict, Ruth on debt   

"Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."

Bierce, Ambrose on debt   

"Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so."

Billings, Josh on debt   

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"Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into."

Billings, Josh on debt   

"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on debt   

"Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him."

Buck, Pearl S. on debt   

"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one."

Byron, Lord on debt   

"There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out."

Carlyle, Thomas on debt   

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"Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries."

Clarke, Kenneth on debt   

"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."

Dickens, Charles on debt
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"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on debt
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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

Franklin, Benjamin on debt
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"Debt is the worst poverty."

Fuller, Thomas on debt
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"The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s."

Grant, James on debt   

"The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor."

Howell, James on debt   

"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."

Hugo, Victor on debt   

"We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back."

Iacocca, Lee on debt   

"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

Jefferson, Thomas on debt   

"Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger."

Johnson, Samuel on debt   

"When I was born I owed twelve dollars."

Kaufman, George S. on debt   

"One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit."

Keillor, Garrison on debt   

"Money is a poor man's credit card."

Mcluhan, Marshall on debt   

"In the midst of life we are in debt."

Mumford, Ethel Watts on debt   

"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."

Prentice, George D. on debt   

"To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit."

Prior, Matthew on debt   

"Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt."

Proverb on debt
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"Out of debt, out of danger."

Proverb on debt   

"Promises make debt, and debt makes promises."

Proverb, Dutch on debt   

"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."

Proverb, English on debt
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"God often pays debts without money."

Proverb, Irish on debt   

"A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy."

Proverb, Irish on debt   

"Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone."

Randolf, G. on debt   

"You build on cost and you borrow on value."

Reichmann, Paul on debt   

"The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?"

Rogers, Will on debt   

"A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll."

Shaffer, Ivan on debt   

"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"Words pay no debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"He that dies pays all his debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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