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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
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| Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer) |
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| A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
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| Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
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Josh Billings(1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer) |
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| Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
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Josh Billings(1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer) |
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| Credit buying is much like being drunk; the buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
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Dr. Joyce Brothers(1927-, American psychologist, television and radio personality) |
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| We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
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Sir John Buchan |
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| Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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Pearl S. Buck(1892-1973, American novelist) |
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| It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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Lord Byron(1788-1824, British poet) |
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| There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
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Kenneth Clarke(British chancellor of the Exchequer) |
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| Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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Charles Dickens(1812-1870, British novelist) |
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| It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
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Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat) |
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| Debt is the worst poverty.
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Thomas Fuller(1608-1661, British clergyman, author) |
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| The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
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James Grant(American international business consultant) |
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| A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Victor Hugo(1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashioned way. We pay it back.
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Lee Iacocca(1924-, American businessman, former CEO of Chrysler) |
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| The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826, American President (3rd)) |
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| Small debts are like small gun shots; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
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| When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
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George S. Kaufman(1889-1961, American playwright, director) |
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| One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
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| Money is a poor man's credit card.
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Marshall McLuhan(1911-1980, Canadian communications theorist) |
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| In the midst of life we are in debt.
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| Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
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George D. Prentice(American editor) |
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| To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
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| Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
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Dutch Proverb(Sayings of Dutch origin) |
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| Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
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English Proverb(Sayings of British origin) |
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| A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
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| God often pays debts without money.
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| Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.
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| You build on cost and you borrow on value.
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Paul Reichmann(Canadian businessman) |
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| The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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Will Rogers(1879-1935, American humorist, actor) |
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| You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan(1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist) |
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| A man isn't a man until he meets a payroll.
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| He that dies pays all his debts.
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William Shakespeare(1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor) |
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| I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
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William Shakespeare(1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor) |
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| You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
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| Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
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| Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing
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| Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.
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| If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.
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| If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.
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| Out of debt, out of danger.
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| Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.
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| Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
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| If you don't have some bad loans you are not in business.
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Paul Volcker(1927-, American economist, banker) |
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| The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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Simone Weil(1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic) |
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| Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
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Earl Wilson(1907-1987, American newspaper columnist) |
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