Owing A Debt Quotes

• ..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, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

  George Washington

  War, Government Debt, May

  George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.16

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• Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Looks, Debt, Youth

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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, Debt, Owing

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

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• Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

  Ogden Nash

  Fun, Debt Free, Retiring

  "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

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• A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Debtors, Produce

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• When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

  Bill Ballance

  Love, Funny Relationship, Men

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• Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mother, Debt, Owing

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

  Josh Billings

  Debt, Easy, Enough

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  Wendell Phillips

  Government, Tyrants, People

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.421

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• Creditors have better memories than debtors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Memories, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Debtors, Forgetful, Gift From God

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

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• Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Debt, Pay

  'Solution' (1847)

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ties, Debtors, Financial

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

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• Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

  Moliere

  Children, Pain, Debt

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• Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

  George D. Prentice

  Debt Free, People, Use

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• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

  Alexander the Great

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Appreciation

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• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Debt, Disease

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [268]

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Advice, Debt, Calamity

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

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• He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Labor Day, Faces

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 2 (1839)

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• No man's credit is as good as his money.

  John Dewey

  Money, Business, Men

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

  George Herbert

  Mean, Debt, Literature

  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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• A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Shadow, Debt, Fields

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.241, Library of Alexandria

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• Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

  Thomas Tusser

  Debt, Borrowing, Borrowed Money

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.2

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• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Debt Free, Riches

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