Debt Quotes - Page 8

• Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

  Olivier Sarkozy

  Stupid, Creating, Errands

  "Jack Welch Gives 'Em Hell At Vf/bloomberg Panel" by Mike Hogan, www.vanityfair.com. May 29, 2009.

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  When you get in debt you become a slave.

  Andrew Jackson

  Slave

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: 1833-1838”

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• Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ties, Debtors, Owing A Debt

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.40, 谷月社

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• The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

  Marilu Henner

  People, Trying, Meals

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• Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Literature, Pay

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1862). “The Works of George Herbert ... Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, etc”, p.334

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• To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

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• Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mean, Wells, Lays

  Letter to his ward Andrew Jackson Hutchings, April 18, 1833.

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• Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

  Chaka Fattah

  Children, Cost, Pay

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• I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

  Benny Hinn

  Book, Royalty, Ifs

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• One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

  Jesse H. Jones

  Men, Owing, Pay

  The New York Times Magazine, p. 4, July 2, 1939.

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• 'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.

  Alexander Brome

  Running, Falling In Love, And Love

  Alexander Brome, “The Mad Lover”

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• There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

  Mark Cane

  Men, Cooperation

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• Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Lost, Faster

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• Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Debtors, Owing A Debt, Forgetful

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• 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 have to find a way to get on the agenda.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Long, Agendas

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

  Joyce Brothers

  Hangover, Shopping, Drunk

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• We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

  John Buchan

  Past, Pay

  Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI, May 12, 1937.

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• The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

  Steve Buyer

  Gratitude, Veterans Day, War

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• It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Increase

  Epistulae ad Familiares, II, 6, 2, 43 BC.

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

  Euripides

  Literature, Pay, Dies

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

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• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Mother, Gratitude

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• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Business

  "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2003.

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• A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blessing, Conceited, Political

  Letter to Robert Morris, 30 Apr. 1781

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• We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

  Doc Hastings

  Veterans Day, War, Our World

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