Quotes
Quotes about Debt
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debtsâyou have no idea of the pain it gives one.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Debt is the worst poverty.
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.
And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Debt is the slavery of the free.
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
He who promises runs in debt.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
