debt quotes

• There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. (Thomas Carlyle) [sense of duty]
• Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. (Kenneth Clarke) [action/sense of duty/countries/countries]
• Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. (William Cobbett) [system/sense of duty]
• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [sense of duty/willpower/money]
• Science does not know its debt to imagination. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [science/sense of duty/imagination]
• Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. (Benjamin Franklin) [sense of duty]
• Debt is the worst poverty. (Thomas Fuller) [sense of duty]
• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [willpower/sense of duty]
• Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. (Samuel Johnson) [sense of duty/present]
• Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity. (Samuel Johnson) [sense of duty/willpower/find]
• It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. (Leonard Orr) [imagination/sense of duty]
• Wars are made to make debt. (Ezra Pound) [sense of duty]
• What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? (Adam Smith) [happiness/health/sense of duty]
• Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. (Mark Twain) [find/life/sense of duty/death]
• We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. (Mark Twain) [sense of duty/human/death]
• The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. (Gore Vidal) [sense of duty/control/press/politicians]
• The actor was obliged either to bend himself to stultifying odd jobs to keep his body and soul together or he had to sponge off friends, get into debt, or prostitute his art. (Bela Lugosi) [soul & body/sense of duty/art]
• The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days. (Marilu Henner) [people/sense of duty]
• I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful. (Christopher Lee) [sense of duty/face]
• My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell. (Gloria Swanson) [sense of duty/willpower//love]
• Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. (Ambrose Bierce) [sense of duty/ingenious]
• “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible,” (Barack Obama) [sense of duty]
• I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. (Conrad Veidt) [art/forget/sense of duty]

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