50 quotes found
“Before you start feeling bad about yourself for your debt, this would be a good moment to remind yourself that money doesn't exist--it's just a system of value exchange. That's it. Pure and simple....”
“There are some debts that can't be paid with money.”
“Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.”
“Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. T...”
“Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everythingnothing else 'answered;' and Lydgate supposed ...”
“No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.”
“[A man] finds himself forced by necessity to borrow money. He knows that he will not be able to repay it, but sees also that nothing will be lent to him unless he promises stoutly to repay it in de...”
“He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.”
“Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt."You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.”
“What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.”
“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”
“Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners wh...”
“Only debt is forever.”
“The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt,...”
“Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.”
“A church debt is the devil's salary.”
“Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!”
“If you want the time to pass quickly just give your note for 90 days.”
“Owe no man anything.”
“He that dies pays all debts.”
