"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

Franklin, Benjamin | debt | 12 bookmarks

"He that dies pays all his debts."

Shakespeare, William | debt | 10 bookmarks

"Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing"

Unknown, Source | debt | 3 bookmarks

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

Jefferson, Thomas | debt | 2 bookmarks

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

Bierce, Ambrose | debt | 1 bookmarks

"If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage."

Unknown, Source | debt | 4 bookmarks

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

Randolf, G. | debt | 1 bookmarks

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

Reichmann, Paul | debt | 0 bookmarks

"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 | debt | 4 bookmarks

"You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time."

Terence | debt | 0 bookmarks

"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 | debt | 0 bookmarks

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

Rogers, Will | debt | 1 bookmarks

"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 | debt | 3 bookmarks

"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 | debt | 1 bookmarks

"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley | debt | 0 bookmarks

"Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours."

Updike, John | debt | 1 bookmarks

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

Benedict, Ruth | debt | 1 bookmarks

"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Shaw, George Bernard | debt | 8 bookmarks

"The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities."

Weil, Simone | debt | 0 bookmarks

"When I was born I owed twelve dollars."

Kaufman, George S. | debt | 1 bookmarks

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind."

Bagehot, Walter | silence | 2 bookmarks

"A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind."

Bagehot, Walter | weddings | 0 bookmarks

"War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations."

Bagehot, Walter | war | 0 bookmarks

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

Bagehot, Walter | innovation | 0 bookmarks

"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."

Bagehot, Walter | writers and writing | 3 bookmarks

"Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions."

Bagehot, Walter | royalty | 0 bookmarks

"History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it."

Bagehot, Walter | world | 0 bookmarks

"We must not let daylight in upon the magic."

Bagehot, Walter | magic | 4 bookmarks

"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."

Bagehot, Walter | teacher | 1 bookmarks

"A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business."

Bagehot, Walter | bureaucracy | 0 bookmarks

"An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle."

Bagehot, Walter | diplomacy | 0 bookmarks

"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best."

Bagehot, Walter | nations | 0 bookmarks

"The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others."

Bagehot, Walter | royalty | 0 bookmarks

"The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null."

Bagehot, Walter | free will | 0 bookmarks

"Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete."

Bagehot, Walter | law and lawyers | 1 bookmarks

"Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger."

Bagehot, Walter | belief | 2 bookmarks

"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds."

Bagehot, Walter | talkativeness | 1 bookmarks

"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."

Bagehot, Walter | women | 3 bookmarks

"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable."

Bagehot, Walter | despotism | 1 bookmarks

"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."

Bagehot, Walter | exaggeration | 0 bookmarks

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

Battista, Orlando A. | love | 49 bookmarks

"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. | love | 57 bookmarks

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle | love | 68 bookmarks

"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard | love | 107 bookmarks

"And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]"

Bible | love | 10 bookmarks

"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown | friendship | 140 bookmarks

"We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]"

Bible | love | 14 bookmarks

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus | love | 92 bookmarks

"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic | love | 137 bookmarks

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean | love | 66 bookmarks