(1067 quotes found)
“Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow”
Seneca
“You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.”
Jane Bryant Quinn
“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
“The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England”
W. R. Inge
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first”
Mark Twain
“DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it. --Barlow S. Vode”
Ambrose Bierce
“Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.”
George Dennison Prentice
“Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.”
Proverb
