Debt Quotes - Page 8

I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.

In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.