Debtors famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
-- Augustus Toplady -
The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
-- Fannie Hurst -
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
-- Francois Rabelais -
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
-- Gore Vidal -
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
-- Irenaeus of Lyons -
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
-- James Howell -
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
-- John Turner -
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
-- John Vanbrugh -
What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.
-- Mark Levin -
Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.
-- James Grant -
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.
-- Yanis Varoufakis
