Debt Quotes
These are some of the best 'Debt' quotations and sayings.
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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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.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. - The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.
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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.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
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For decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals... You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation?
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He that dies pays all debts.
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I have discovered the philosopher's stone, that turns everything into gold: it is, "Pay as you go."
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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.
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The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, involving the necessity of going on in the same course, debt following debt, as lie follows lie.
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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 afraid 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.
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
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