Credit Quotes - Page 10

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they're charged back up. Then you're in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You're in a hole that's twice as deep - and twice as steep.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new world state and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell's 1984.

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.