In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty… — Bartholomew Roberts Copy Share Image
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor. — James Grant Copy Share Image
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors. — Joey Lauren Adams Copy Share Image
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens… — Austen Chamberlain Copy Share Image
No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image