Creditors Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creditors Debt Debtors Frugality Inspirational Observers Poor richard Sects Superstitious Time
Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.” — Margaret Atwood 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 the demands… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors. — Francois Rabelais 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 creditors always… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“Karma: The delusion of the pretentious; who think the Universe should act as their debt collector.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 soul raised… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin 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 a long… — Mario Monti 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 individuals receive… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting… — Hunter S. Thompson 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 like trying… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens. — Benjamin Hawkins Copy Share Image
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors. — Francois Rabelais 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 with small… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount… — Mark Kirk Copy Share Image