Debts Quotes

178 Debts quotes by 144 unique authors

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. — Ogden Nash
My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know… — John B. S. Haldane
The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this… — Jacob Burckhardt
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones. — George Washington
The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is… — Winston Churchill
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts,… — George Washington
We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home,… — James Black
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.… — Alexander Hamilton
Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is… — Nhat Hanh
There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your houses in order.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision… — Russell Kirk
We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts. — Alain de Botton
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so. — Eduard Shevardnadze
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts. — Suze Orman
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing… — Thomas Jefferson
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have… — Peer Steinbruck
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America might otherwise bear… — William J. Clinton
You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she… — Morgan Llywelyn
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts. — John Andreas Widtsoe
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing… — Allan Bloom
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar… — Hunter S. Thompson

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