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Debt Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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…
- 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…
- It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
- Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
- Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
- Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty,…
- The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded;…
- There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of…
- Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
- Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.
- A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay…
- Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- A man in debt is so far a slave.
- It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
More Debt Quotes
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works… — Michele Bachmann
- After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann
- I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to… — Michele Bachmann
- 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
- I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to… — Michael Bloomberg