A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

Benjamin Franklin

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

Irvin D. Yalom

We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out.... We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be completed by a partial mutualisation of debts through eurobonds.

Francois Hollande

Death pays all debts.

Michel de Montaigne

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare

A Lannister always pays his debts.

George R. R. Martin

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.

Grenville Kleiser

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

Thomas Brooks

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

Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns.

Jerome Powell

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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