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.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.
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!
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.
A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.
There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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.
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
