Top 53 Quotes About Debtors
#1. Albert B. Saye, who has searched hardest for debtors among the colonists, estimates that not more than a dozen debtors released from prison by Parliament ever came to Georgia, if indeed that many came.
Kenneth Coleman
#2. This figure shows the cash flows in a world with only two people. I labeled them creditor and debtor. In reality, there are many creditors and debtors (see text for details). It also explains why the "rich get richer" and why those who are in debt and work for a living never seem to "get ahead.
Jacob Lund Fisker
#3. We have decided to lock people up for social deviancy these days. We tell ourselves that we're not running debtors' prisons, that this isn't Dickensian
Linda Tirado
#4. We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.
P.F. Bresee
#6. I choose faithfulness ... Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not question my love. And my children will never fear that they father will not come home.
Max Lucado
#7. The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
Hillary Clinton
#8. All the creditors must appear in the ledger at the right hand side, and all the debtors at the left. All entries made in the ledger have to be double entries - that is, if you make one creditor, you must make someone debtor
Luca Pacioli
#9. Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.
Hunter S. Thompson
#10. The leaders of Jamestown had borrowed directly from the Roman model of slavery: abandoned children and debtors were made slaves.
Nancy Isenberg
#11. G Our Father in heaven, h hallowed be i your name. [1] 10 j Your kingdom come, k your will be done, [2] l on earth as it is in heaven. 11 m Give us n this day our daily bread, [3] 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And o lead us not into temptation,
Anonymous
#12. Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
John Turner
#13. His debtors always assumed he'd demand their firstborn. Like I'm fucking Rumpelstiltskin? What would Lothaire do with countless squalling babes? Raise them in a kennel?
Kresley Cole
#14. Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken.
R. Scott Bakker
#15. Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor.
Saint Augustine
#16. [I]f you happen to have any money, lock it up quickly; if you happen to have any jewels, hide them directly; if you happen to have any debtors, make them pay you, or any creditors, don't pay them.
Alexandre Dumas
#17. Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
Elizabeth Warren
#18. Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#19. When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
John Vanbrugh
#20. relationships between debtors and creditors brokered or 'intermediated' by increasingly numerous institutions called banks. The core function of these institutions was now information gathering and risk management.
Niall Ferguson
#21. I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#22. The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.
Saint Augustine
#23. All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#24. The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.
H.L. Mencken
#25. A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.
Robert Kiyosaki
#26. The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."
Billy Sunday
#27. OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
Ambrose Bierce
#28. IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.
David Graeber
#29. Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.
Jill Lepore
#31. Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Let us not expect too much from our own hearts here below. At our best we shall find in ourselves daily cause for humiliation, and discover that we are needy debtors to mercy and grace every hour.
J.C. Ryle
#33. No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.
Michael Moore
#34. I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#35. In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.
Emery Lord
#36. Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.
Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.
And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.
Chris Martenson
#37. We are
debtors who cannot pay, yet we have been released from the threat of debtors' prison. It is an insult to God for us to withhold forgiveness and grace from those who ask us, while claiming to be forgiven and saved by grace ourselves.
R.C. Sproul
#38. There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
Philip Yancey
#39. We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.
Jill Lepore
#40. Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce
#42. Whatever you haven't forgiven in your mate, forgive it today. Let it go. Just as we ask Jesus to "forgive us our debts" each day, we must ask Him to help us "forgive our debtors" each day as well.
Alex Kendrick
#43. Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure.
Scott A. Sandage
#44. Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.
Tina Brown
#45. Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.
Yanis Varoufakis
#46. Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
Honore De Balzac
#47. When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
Francois Rabelais
#49. The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
Benjamin Franklin
#50. A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
#51. Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
Fannie Hurst
#53. The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having ...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
