CREDIT

Related Subjects: Borrowing, Business, Confidence, Debt, Inflation, Money, Trust, Usury

1. Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion.—JOSH BILLINGS
   

2. Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.—CICERO
   

3. A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.—DICKENS, Little Dorrit
   

4. However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.—DISRAELI
   

5. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easier six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

6. Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
   Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!—OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat
   

7. Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
   That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!—POPE, Moral Essays
   

8. He getteth a great deal of credit, who payeth but a small debt.—Proverb
   

9. More credit may be thrown down in a moment, than can be built up in an age.—Proverb
   

10. The credit got by a lie lasts only till the truth comes out.—Proverb
    

11. He that has lost his credit is dead to the world.—Proverb
    

12. Credit is better than ill won gear.—Proverb
    

13. Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.—SCOTT
    

14. So far as my coin would stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

15. Credit is the life blood of in­dustry and the control of credit is the control of all society.—UPTON SINCLAIR
    

16. The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.—UPTON SINCLAIR
    

17. Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay,
    Their credit is naught, go they never so gay.—THOMAS TUSSER, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie