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Debts and lies are generally mixed together. -- Francois Rabelais
Debts and lies are generally mixed together -- Francois Rabelais
Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain -- Moliere
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. -- Moliere
Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be. -- Glenn Reynolds
Debts and lies are generally mixed together. [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.] -- Francois Rabelais
He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency. -- Benjamin Franklin
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. -- E. F. L. Wood
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts. -- Chuck Grassley
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. -- Ogden Nash
The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing. -- Vladimir Putin
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one. -- Lord Byron
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts. -- Suze Orman
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again. -- Camilo Jose Cela
Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts. -- Angela Merkel
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. -- Thomas Jefferson
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. -- Samuel Johnson
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous. -- Paul Singer
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. -- James Madison
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes. -- Robert Walpole
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. -- Stephen King
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? -- Carter Glass
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. -- Rupert Murdoch
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. -- Peer Steinbruck
We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy. -- Helen and Scott Nearing
I generally encourage people to make good on debts when they have enough money to repay them. But once a delinquency has been reported to a collection agency, paying it off won't help your FICO score. The damage has already been done, and the blemish will remain on your credit report for seven years. -- Suze Orman
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. -- Rudyard Kipling
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen. -- Peter Welch
Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid. -- Noreena Hertz
I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue. -- David Cameron
And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem. -- Ben Quayle
Death pays all debts. -- Michel de Montaigne
A Lannister always pays his debts. -- George R. R. Martin
Words pay no debts, give her deeds. -- William Shakespeare
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them. -- Benjamin Franklin
[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts. -- Alexander Hamilton
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. -- E. F. L. Wood
Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts. -- Muriel Spark
There are some debts that can't be paid with money. -- Steven J. Carroll
The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay. -- George Meredith
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. -- George Herbert
In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished. -- Roger Stone
Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system. -- George Osborne
Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. -- Bryant McGill
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts. -- Charles Caleb Colton
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones. -- George Washington
Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts. -- George Alexiou
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts. -- Philip Sidney
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts. -- Julius Nyerere
Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts. -- Dave Ramsey
Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. -- Philip Sidney
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. -- Charles Nodier
If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts. -- Henry Ford
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. -- George Osborne
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash. -- CM Punk
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts. -- Arthur Twining Hadley
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. -- John Buchan
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms. -- Lucas Papademos
Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market. -- Joseph Stiglitz
When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts. -- Joyce Meyer
As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. -- David Graeber
You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time. -- Jack Hyles
It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs. -- Hillary Clinton
Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off. -- Robert Reich
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. -- Jeffrey Sachs
Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear. -- Barack Obama
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. -- Sebastian Pinera
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. -- Robert South
One thing I want to make clear: You never want to hide from your debts. It doesn't work. -- Jean Chatzky
Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about. -- Ana Claudia Antunes
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Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. -- James Madison
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. -- Margaret Sanger
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them -- Ogden Nash
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. -- Hal Boyle
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. -- Roger Moore
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. -- Leo Tolstoy
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. -- Alexander Pope
Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts. -- Ilona Andrews
It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts. -- Will Rogers
We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about. -- Oscar Wilde
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts. -- Alain de Botton
High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy. -- Dante Alighieri
A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts. -- John Andreas Widtsoe
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one. -- Lord Byron
What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection? -- Edward Young
The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay. -- Virginia Postrel
No company can promise an end date, but if you have multiple debts, the first one should be settled within a year. -- Jean Chatzky
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement. -- Thomas Jefferson
The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death. -- Lady Gregory
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid. -- George Eliot
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them. -- Charles Kennedy
Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea. -- Jean Chatzky
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own. -- John Adams
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate? -- John Dos Passos
Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency. -- Jean Chatzky
Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay. -- Michael Hudson
Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself. -- Marilynne Robinson
It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati. -- Leo Durocher
The creation of the mortgage bond market, a decade earlier, had extended Wall Street into a place it had never before been: the debts of ordinary Americans. -- Michael Lewis
There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts. -- Andrew Gotianun
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations. -- Luis de Guindos
It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place -- Carl Lofmark

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