(988 quotes found)
“Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy”
Publilius Syrus
“The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.”
Gore Vidal
“A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.”
Irish Proverb
“It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place”
Carl Lofmark
“A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt”
George Herbert
“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We were really ordinary people and we really owe a debt of gratitude to (their adviser) Daisy Bates and to our parents.”
Ernest Green
“We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.”
Susan Collins
“The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.”
Suzanne Fields
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