“ Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines. ”
- Robert Manning- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
- 298
“ He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman! ”
- William Gilbert- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 214
“ We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts. ”
- Alan Keyes- Copy
- 2.6K
“ On the bad loans themselves, all I will say is that we had a similar situation in the United States in the eighties with our Savings and Loan, and we did approach it with a variety of tools, but the principle one was a federal agency that in effect took over those bad loans and took them out of the bank, packaged them, and then managed to merchandise them, to sell them. ”
- Howard Baker- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing,... We should be cutting taxes by reducing the level of spending and that's an issue that I think is critically on the table. ”
- Alan Greenspan- Copy
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“ I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ A money-lender — he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 192
“ 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- Copy
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“ I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant — and let the air out of their tires. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children. ”
- Elizabeth I- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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