Debt Quotes - Page 9

• Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hard Times, Men, Debt Free

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, July 13, 1879.

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• We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Liberty, Dollars

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Stars, Dollars, Ten

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• Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

  Chuck Grassley

  People, Repaying, Picks

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• You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

  Daniel Hannan

  Economic Recession, Politics, Way

  "Outcry Against U.S. Budget Heard Around Globe". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. March 27, 2009.

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

  Ross Perot

  Arrogance, Economy, Should

  United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, H. Ross Perot (1993). “Ethics Reform: Testimony of H. Ross Perot : Hearing Before the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session ... March 2, 1993”

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• There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Paying Debts, Income

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.113

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• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

  Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). “Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment”

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• 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

  Country, Teacher, Impossible

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• The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Men, House

  William Graham Sumner (1913). “Earth-hunger and other essays”

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• A church debt is the devil's salary.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Church, Devil, Salary

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• If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

  Suze Orman

  Cleaning, Problem, Clutter

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• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Blessed, Enemy, Energy

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• Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Dinner, Bed

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• Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Advice, Calamity, Inconvenience

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.110

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• A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

  George Herbert

  Worry, Pay

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• What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

  Adam Smith

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".

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• It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

  Roger Moore

  Luxury, World, Easy

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• We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

  Phineas F. Bresee

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

  Phil McGraw

  Money, Trying, Treats

  "Dr. Phil & Robin's Do-It-Yourself Marriage Makeover". Interview with Kate Coyne, www.goodhousekeeping.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Men, Thinking, Opinion

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• 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 so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Son, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.26, Library of America

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• You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Money, Income

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• A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Pay, Bills

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