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Quotes about Debt


For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.

Fr. Alfred D'souza

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander the Great

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Francis Bacon

When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Francis Bacon

Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.

Mike Binder

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander the Great

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Italian Proverb

A Promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert Service

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

Lao Gurdjieff

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