A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Lender Slave

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

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

Mark Levin

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

William Shakespeare

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Ernest Rutherford

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

James Grant

Economic polarization is also occurring between creditor and debtor nations. This issplitting the eurozone between Germany, France and the Netherlands in the creditor camp, against Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy falling deeper into debt, unemployment and austerity - followed by emigration and capital flight.

Michael Hudson

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

James Howell

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

P. G. Wodehouse

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

James Grant

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Victor Hugo

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.

Dudley North

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.