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Creditors have better memories than debtors. -- Benjamin Franklin
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy. -- Hillary Clinton
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every novel is a debtor to Homer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors. -- Augustus Toplady
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. -- James Howell
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. -- Publilius Syrus
The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor. -- Benjamin Franklin
Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor. -- James Grant
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. -- Michael Moore
A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. -- Elizabeth Warren
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. -- Gore Vidal
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home. -- Chanakya
So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does. -- Oswald Chambers
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established. -- Andy Stanley
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants. -- Jill Lepore
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad. -- Jill Lepore
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
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
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work. -- Tina Brown
I choose faithfulness...Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not question my love. And my children will never fear that they father will not come home. -- Max Lucado
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. -- Paul Sarbanes
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too. -- Samuel Johnson
We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living. -- Leonard Ravenhill
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot. -- William Jennings Bryan
There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors. -- Philip Yancey
The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough." -- Billy Sunday
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled. -- Irenaeus of Lyons
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor. -- Saint Augustine
We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it. -- Phineas F. Bresee
We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it. -- Phineas F. Bresee
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company. -- John Vanbrugh
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls. -- H. L. Mencken
I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business. -- Rutherford B. Hayes

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