Top 100 Quotes About Debts
#1. To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#3. True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always doing your utmost to repay debts of gratitude. Such people radiate integrity, depth of character, bigheartedness and charm.
Josei Toda
#4. I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.
Samuel Johnson
#5. I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
Will Cuppy
#7. When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Camilo Jose Cela
#8. In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.
Allison Anders
#9. When you hear the phrase "rescue the financial system," translate it in your mind into "keep the debts on the books." They are trying to find a way for you (and debtor nations too) to keep paying and for the debt to keep growing.
Charles Eisenstein
#10. The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
John Podhoretz
#11. Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be completed by a partial mutualisation of debts through eurobonds.
Francois Hollande
#12. I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.
CM Punk
#13. I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
George Eliot
#15. The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.
Russell Kirk
#16. When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.
Joyce Meyer
#18. I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If you accumulate debts and waste your money, that's, of course, a disaster.
Jeremy Grantham
#19. What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen King
#20. the only things that came from the practice were foolhardy acts, ill-advised liaisons, and gambling debts.
Amor Towles
#21. Indeed, as subsequent events would show, debts, rather than deficits, make countries vulnerable in a monetary union.
Jean Pisani-Ferry
#23. I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.
Chuck Hagel
#24. A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.
Lesslie Newbigin
#25. I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit.
James Madison
#26. We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
#27. What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?
Edward Young
#28. High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy.
Dante Alighieri
#29. On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
Amy Tan
#30. The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
John Adams
#31. As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.
Darren McCarty
#32. Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!
William Shakespeare
#33. Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.
Wolfgang Schauble
#34. I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch
#36. Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.
Margaret Sanger
#37. Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#38. Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
Muriel Spark
#39. In all ages statesmen have found it hard to understand the psychology of revolutionary governments bound to the wheel of armaments and debts. For it is a cycle that cannot be reversed. It can only be broken or its pace accelerated.
Arthur Bryant
#40. Voiding 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
#41. Cats do not enjoy being reminded of debts.
Cats don not incur in debts.
Robin Hobb
#42. A Lannister always paid his debts.
Anonymous
#43. My lord, I cannot thank you enough for what you've done for my daughters," he muttered. Lucien had paid Roland's debts, however it had cost her father his freedom to allow Lucien to do so. Their agreement
Denise Hampton
#44. The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.
Joel A. Barker
#45. He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.
Benjamin Franklin
#46. Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#47. Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling
#49. Man owes two solemn debts
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
Douglas William Jerrold
#50. Now, cherub," his words roll off his lips like honey, "the first repayment of the day: you're coming home with me, and you're not leaving until your debts have all been paid.
Laura Thalassa
#51. In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us. We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.' 'Is
Andrzej Sapkowski
#52. You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.
Jack Hyles
#53. I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#55. God was inviting me to go on Hajj, but before that I needed to settle my debts. Muslims may only embark on their pilgrimage if they are debt-free or at least have made an arrangement for repayment.
Kristiane Backer
#56. It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out.
Charles Dickens
#57. The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#59. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts.
Bryant McGill
#60. 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
#63. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
Jeffrey Sachs
#64. You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.
Robert Reich
#66. Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?
Carter Glass
#67. It's not that we owe "society." If there is any notion of "society" here - and it's not clear that there is - society is our debts.
David Graeber
#68. So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.
John Quincy Adams
#69. The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.
Ward McAllister
#70. I have worked long and hard to try to reduce my debts, and I am devastated that it came to this conclusion. I now intend to focus on the remaining dates of the Westlife tour and my commitments to the band before looking to rebuild a future for my wife, my three children and myself.
Shane Filan
#71. One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.
Rory Bremner
#72. We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
Suze Orman
#73. Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.
Michael Hudson
#74. To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.
A.H. Septimius
#76. Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
Angela Merkel
#77. But then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice. Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said Polemarchus interposing. I
Plato
#78. To have debts is to possess something.
Victor Hugo
#79. The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
Mitch Daniels
#80. Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#81. Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
Lucas Papademos
#82. Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.
George Alexiou
#83. Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.
Peer Steinbruck
#84. Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.
Michael Hudson
#85. You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she gives, every tree, every stalk of grain, costs her. Only if you repay your debts will she continue to provide.
Morgan Llywelyn
#86. When the bet is placed," he said, "a moment is carved away from the past and the future. In that enchanted moment, anything is possible. A man's debts and regrets and limitations disappear. He is buyin' the chance to imagine - for one moment at a time - that th enext card I deal will make him rich.
Mary Doria Russell
#87. Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
Hunter S. Thompson
#88. 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
#89. Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.
Matsime Simon Mohapi
#91. Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#92. the bond market, because Wall Street was now making even bigger money packaging and selling and shuffling around America's growing debts.
Michael Lewis
#93. I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
Thomas Jefferson
#94. I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.
Alexandre Dumas
#95. A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.
Charles B. Rangel
#96. This is what God requires of us: to fulfill our obligations, to be faithful to our contracts, to pay our debts, and to honor our word. Anything short is fraud, regardless of how much we think the other party "deserves" what we owe.
Michael S. Horton
#98. The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.
Michael Hudson
#99. Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.
Alexander Hamilton
#100. Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
George Herbert
