DEBT

Related Subjects: Borrowing, Credit, Gratitude, Money, Obligation, Promise, Usury

1. I hold every man a debtor to his profession.—BACON, Maxims of the Law
   

2. Owe no man anything, but to love one another.—Bible, Romans 13:8

3. Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.—BULWER-LYTTON
   

4. Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.—BULWER-LYTTON
   

5. A man who owes a little can clear it off in a little time, and, if he is prudent, he will; whereas a man, who, by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.—LORD CHESTERFIELD
   

6. The so-called debtor class .. .are not dishonest because they are in debt.—GROVER CLEVELAND
   

7. Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid,
   Force many a shining youth into the shade,
   Not to redeem his time, but his estate,
   And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.—COWPER, Retirement
   

8. Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; will be in fear when you speak to him; will make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose your veracity, and sink into base, downright lying; for the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. A freeborn man ought not to be ashamed nor of raid to see or speak to any man living, but poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.—FRANKLIN
   

9. A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.—ALEXANDER HAMILTON

10. If a man owe a debt and Adad inundate his field and carry away the produce, or, through lack of water, grain have not grown in the field, in that year he shall not make any return of grain to the creditor, he shall alter his contract-tablet and he shall not pay the interest for that year.—HAMMURABI, The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon
    

11. By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.
    Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,
    Cannot on forty.—GEORGE HERBERT, The Church Porch
    

12. Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it is a calamity.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
    

13. Debts are nowadays like children, begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain.—MOLIERE
    

14. He who oweth is all in the wrong.—Proverb
    

15. He that gets out of debt, grows rich.—Proverb
    

16. A poor man's debt makes a great noise.—Proverb
    

17. Debt is the worst poverty.—Proverb
    

18. Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.—Proverb
    

19. It is better to pay, and have but little left, than to have much, and be always in debt.—Proverb
    

20. A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.—PUBLILI US SYRUS,
    Sententiae
    

21. The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
    Discharged, perchance with greater ease than made.—FRANCIS QUARLES, Emblems
    

22. Debts and lies are generally mixed together.—RABELAIS
    

23. I have discovered the philosopher's stone, that turns everything into gold: it is, "Pay as you go".—JOHN RANDOLPH
    

24. Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible. A man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life.—C. H. SPURGEON
    

25. Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.—THACKERAY, Vanity Fair
    

26. Germans hold a debt over a man for forty years. . . In England a man who fails seldom again rises above low-water mark. In America, where ninety-five out of the hundred come down, everybody floats in on the flood.—G. F. TRAIN, Young America in Wall St.