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Debt Quotes - Page 10

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.283, Oxford University Press, USA

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.291, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.290, Oxford University Press, USA

Ambition's debt is paid.

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 83

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.114

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if is critical — they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

"David Axelrod defends Obama's handling of economy; Ted Cruz pulls Texas-sized upset". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 05, 2012.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.110

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.265

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.

Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown