Debt Quotes

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

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

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

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

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

We can meet the obligations of Social security and Medicare. If we stay on the path that your party has us on, we'll be in a mountain range of debt and we're gonna face hard choices.

The disease of debt has reached the top. And once it reaches the top it has no-where else to go.

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

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

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

A public debt is a public curse.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.