Debt Quotes

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War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. — Samuel B. Pettengill
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… — G I Gurdjieff
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. — Ambrose
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in… — Dag Hammarskjold
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit… — Roger Moore
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. — Mark Twain
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. — Benjamin Franklin
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. — Samuel Johnson
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of. — Josh Billings
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. — Benjamin Disraeli
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice. — Plutarch
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their… — Thomas Jefferson
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him… — Clarence Budington Kelland
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am… — John Stott
We were so young, so in love, and so in debt. — Michelle Obama

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