"If the prodigal quits life in debt to……" — Charles Caleb Colton

"If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself."

— Charles Caleb Colton

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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…

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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the… — Margaret Atwood
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics… — Michele Bachmann
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you… — Michele Bachmann
I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal… — 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… — Michael Bloomberg

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