"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."

Barrymore, John on Debt
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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Debt
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"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."

Benedict, Ruth on Debt
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"Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."

Bierce, Ambrose on Debt
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"Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so."

Billings, Josh on Debt
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"Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into."

Billings, Josh on Debt
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"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Debt
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"Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him."

Buck, Pearl S. on Debt
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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one."

Byron, Lord on Debt
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"There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out."

Carlyle, Thomas on Debt
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"Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries."

Clarke, Kenneth on Debt
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"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."

Dickens, Charles on Debt
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"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Debt
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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

Franklin, Benjamin on Debt
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"Debt is the worst poverty."

Fuller, Thomas on Debt
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"The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s."

Grant, James on Debt
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"The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor."

Howell, James on Debt
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"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."

Hugo, Victor on Debt
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"We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back."

Iacocca, Lee on Debt
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"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

Jefferson, Thomas on Debt
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"Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger."

Johnson, Samuel on Debt
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"When I was born I owed twelve dollars."

Kaufman, George S. on Debt
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"One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit."

Keillor, Garrison on Debt
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"Money is a poor man's credit card."

Mcluhan, Marshall on Debt
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"In the midst of life we are in debt."

Mumford, Ethel Watts on Debt
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"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."

Prentice, George D. on Debt
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"To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit."

Prior, Matthew on Debt
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"Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt."

Proverb on Debt
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"Out of debt, out of danger."

Proverb on Debt
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"Promises make debt, and debt makes promises."

Proverb, Dutch on Debt
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"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."

Proverb, English on Debt
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"God often pays debts without money."

Proverb, Irish on Debt
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"A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy."

Proverb, Irish on Debt
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"Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone."

Randolf, G. on Debt
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"You build on cost and you borrow on value."

Reichmann, Paul on Debt
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"The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?"

Rogers, Will on Debt
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"A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll."

Shaffer, Ivan on Debt
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"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."

Shakespeare, William on Debt
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"Words pay no debts."

Shakespeare, William on Debt
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"He that dies pays all his debts."

Shakespeare, William on Debt
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