He that dies pays all debts.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
A man must cut down his outgoings and save his incomings if he wants to clear himself; you can’t spend your penny and pay debts with it too. Stint the kitchen if the purse is bare. Don’t believe in any way of wiping out debts except by paying hard cash. Promises make debts, and debts make promises, but promises never pay debts…
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Debt, we’ve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains – pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies – but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.
Debt is the worst poverty.
