Debt quotations

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◆ When you forgive someone, you absorb their debt. That's why forgiveness is so hard.

- Craig Williams99

◆ A man in debt is so far a slave.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98

◆ The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

- William Graham Sumner98

◆ There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.

- Frederick Soddy98

◆ The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

- Mitch McConnell98

◆ Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

- George Peabody98

◆ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

- Charles Dickens98

◆ Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

- Robert Manning98

◆ Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

- Samuel Johnson98

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

- John Buchan98

◆ Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

- Henrik Ibsen98

◆ Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

- Chaka Fattah98

◆ The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

- Susan George98

◆ It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero98

◆ There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

- Mark Caine98