Debtors Quotes

Debtors Quote of the day

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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

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

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

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

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.

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.

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.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

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.

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.

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

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.

The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

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.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Our country has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish the economy.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.