“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
Owing A Debt Quotes
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Owing A Debt Quotes
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
“Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert ... Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, etc
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
“Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.”
“Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.”
“Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.”
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
“Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.”
“Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.”
“It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.”
Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron
“Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.”
“A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Source: Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States