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Quotes About Debt

de sus acreedores, su madre no tuvo más remedio que vender algunas tierras. ¡Quinientos francos en guantes! ¿El oso blanco con guantes blancos? Qué va, qué va; más bien el loro enguantado.
~ Julian Barnes
The ruby landed at the baron's feet. "Repayment, Baron, from Lady Kincaid.
~ Julie Garwood
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
~ Mark Cane
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.
~ Roy Acuff
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.
~ Samuel Johnson
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
~ Simone Weil
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
~ Arthur Twining Hadley
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
~ Edward Young
And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.
~ Michael Chabon
The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.
~ Raoul Peck
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.
~ John Steinbeck
We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.
~ Mike Rowe
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.
~ Johnny Carson
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
~ Thomas Jefferson
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We need to stop spending money we don't have.
~ Paul Ryan
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.
~ Errol Flynn