Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no shame in living within your income, however small it may be, but there is shame if creditors are… — Christine De Pisan Copy Share Image
People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
“For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be making my first appearance on air professionally. By that I mean I'm finally getting paid, which I know… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency,… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia.… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
“They barely have time to fend off calls from angry creditors, let alone write letters to Congress. And most are profoundly, desperately… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image