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.
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!
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.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
A church debt is the devil’s salary.
Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.
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…
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.
We all think we’re going to get out of debt.
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.
He who promises runs in debt.
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
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.
A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.
