Debt

(234 votes)   Debt is the worst poverty.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(122 votes)   The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(121 votes)   Words pay no debts.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(120 votes)   He that dies pays all his debts.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(112 votes)   God often pays debts without money.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(110 votes)   Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(108 votes)   I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(107 votes)   Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(101 votes)   A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(97 votes)   When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

George S. Kaufman
1889-1961, American Playwright, Director

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(88 votes)   Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Dutch Proverbs
Sayings of Dutch Origin

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(87 votes)   You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(86 votes)   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.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(86 votes)   The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(77 votes)   Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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