Quotes and Sayings About Debt
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The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.
-- Abigail Scott Duniway -
My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund.
-- Adam SandlerSource : "Adam Sandler and Friends Too Grown Up to LOL, But Not for Dropping Trou" by Heather Huntington, www.eonline.com. June 6, 2010.
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It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
-- Aesop -
We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration.
-- Al Franken -
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.
-- Alan Keyes -
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
-- Alex Haley -
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I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
-- Alexander BromeSource : 'Songs and Other Poems' (2nd ed., 1664) pt. 1 'The Mad Lover'
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As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
-- Andrew Jackson -
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Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
-- Angela Merkel -
At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.
-- Angela Merkel -
Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
-- Anita Diament -
Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.
-- Ann Wilson -
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
-- Aristophanes -
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
-- Arthur Twining Hadley -
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
-- Barack Obama -
Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
-- Ben BernankeSource : "Who Do You Trust with Your Money?". Ben Bernanke's speech before the U.S. House Budget Committee in Washington, D.C., www.minneapolisfed.org. September 1, 2009.
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Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.
-- Benny Hinn -
We don`t need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.
-- Bernie Sanders