Quotes of Debtor - somelinesforyou

“ People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. ”

- Christopher Isherwood

“ The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. ”

- James Howell

“ Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ I hold every man a debtor to his profession. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Creditors have better memories than debtors. ”

- Benjamin Franklin
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