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Debt Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
- He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance…
- The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
- Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
- Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.
- Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
- Lying rides upon debt's back.
- If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or…
- Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to…
- Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath…
- Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
- As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had,…
- Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
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- I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them. — Ernie Banks
- The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created. — Javier Bardem
- If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. — John Barrymore
- A church debt is the devil's salary. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. — Ambrose Bierce
- Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. — Aesop
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