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Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.
Proverb
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
Terence
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.
Matthew Prior
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
Will Rogers, March 1, 1931
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
Thomas Carlyle
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Artemus Ward
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
English Proverb
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
Danish proverb
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
James Howell
An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Kenneth Clarke
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
Oliver Goldsmith
A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.
Ivan Shaffer
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.
Garrison Keillor
