Top 55 Man In Debt Quotes
#1. Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe.
Archibald MacLeish
#4. Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
Henry Ward Beecher
#5. What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!
Susan Fenimore Cooper
#6. A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#7. Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.
Stephen L. Richards
#8. Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.
John Ruskin
#9. Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.
Loral Langemeier
#10. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
G. Gordon Liddy
#11. Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.
Joseph Jekyll
#12. There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
Mark Caine
#13. 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
#14. One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
Jesse H. Jones
#15. The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
Edward M. Purcell
#16. If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of
Thomas B. Macaulay
#17. The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
Robert Fulghum
#18. When money's tight and is hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
Flann O'Brien
#19. The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.
Richard Steele
#20. A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move.
Mark Lawrence
#21. It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?
John Dos Passos
#22. Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#23. A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.
Seneca The Younger
#25. I will be forever grateful and forever in your debt. There is no greater deed or favor one man can do for another than to save his life. So grazi. Molto grazi, mi amico.
Peter Cimino
#26. When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Bill Ballance
#27. Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.
Edward Rutherfurd
#28. Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
Josh Billings
#29. If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
Aristophanes
#30. I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for,
Adam Kokesh
#31. One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.
Ogwo David Emenike
#32. No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
#35. When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?
Maria Edgeworth
#36. We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
Christopher Hitchens
#37. My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.
Brian Cox
#38. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Francis Bacon
#39. The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
Ambrose
#40. And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.
Michael Chabon
#41. It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#42. There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it ...
Brigham Young
#44. Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
Pearl S. Buck
#45. But though you'd never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall - when you fall, you're going to fall like a starving man.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#46. I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
Andrew Jackson
#47. Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt. That
Plato
#48. A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
Oscar Wilde
#49. What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
#50. Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?
George Washington
#51. The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.
Evan Esar
#52. That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.
Erri De Luca
#53. No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.
Tessa Dare
#54. There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
Thomas Jefferson
#55. The immense and undeniable loss of freedoms, as they were in 1900, is undeniable. We have seen the acceleration in efficiency of the tyrannizing factors. It's enough to keep a man worried. Wars are made to make debt. I suppose there's a possible out in space satellites and other ways of making debt.
Ezra Pound
