(983 quotes found)
“Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow”
Seneca
“Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This debt deal will benefit tens of millions of the poorest people on the planet,”
Bob Geldof
“Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?”
Socrates
“Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt”
Henrik Ibsen
“This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'”
Dave Ramsey
“It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.”
“A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy”
Publilius Syrus
“Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.”
Proverb
“If you have $30 billion of GM debt underlying some multiple of that amount in outstanding credit-default swap contracts, then you need to have a way to cash-settle those contracts after a credit event.”
Sunil Hirani