Debt Quotes

Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert W. Service
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard? s Almanac (1758)
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
Mark Twain
Jewish prove - people come to poverty in two ways accumulating...
Thomas jefferson, letter to samuel kercheval, july 12, 1816 - we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual...
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.
Herbert Clark Hoove
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
James Goldsmith
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
Joseph F. Newton
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
John buchan - we can pay our debt to the past by putting the...
Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Prove
He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 2
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.
Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This".
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
Joseph F. Newton