(1066 quotes found)
“First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”
Euripides
“He that sells upon Credit, expects to lose 5 per Cent. by bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.”
Will Rogers
“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other”
James Madison
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.”
Bill Balance
“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”
Thomas Jefferson
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
Adam Smith
“The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt”