(983 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
“When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.”
Camilo Jose Cela
“Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.”
Freya Stark
“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
“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”
Alexander Hamilton
“Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.”
Kofi Annan
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
Adam Smith
“There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.”
Persian Proverb
“Debts and lies are generally mixed together”
Francois Rabelais
“The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt”
Benjamin Franklin
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