Debt Quotes

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

James Goldsmith

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert W. Service

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This".

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Education a debt due from present to future generations.

George Peabody

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Publilius Syrus

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 2

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

Benjamin Franklin

People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.

Jewish Prove

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard? s Almanac (1758)

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Joseph F. Newton

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

John Buchan

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Malayan Prove

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

G. Gordon Liddy