Top 312 Debts Quotes & Sayings

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them. So, they're what the classical economist called empty pricing. Prices with no real cost value. What they called rent and fictitious capital. Capital claims on junk mortgage borrowers. The pretense is that all these debts can be paid but it's all fictitious, because everybody knows - at least on Wall Street everybody knows - that many debts can't be paid.

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.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

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.

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.

Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately the only party that can pay the debt is the government, because it runs the printing presses. So the debts ultimately either are paid by the government, or they're paid by a huge transfer of property from debtors to creditors - or, the debts are written off.

What I'm most proud of is that I paid off all the debts of my household.

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up. You have to pay, and pay, and keep on paying. So Hell is like an infernal maxed-out credit card that multiplies the charges endlessly.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn't have to repay debts that we knowingly lent to bad regimes long since gone; and all illegitimate debts - debts lent to these terrible dictators like Saddam Hussein, like Suharto, like Marcos - must also be canceled.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink the ability to pay the debts, so it's all an illusion that the system can be saved. The question is, how long are people going to be willing to live in this illusion?

The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we need this money to meet the needs of children who are dying right now so we will put the debt servicing payments into urgent social investment in health, education, drinking water, control of AIDS and other needs.'

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.

Death pays all debts.

Words pay no debts, give her deeds.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

He that dies pays all debts.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.

I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If you accumulate debts and waste your money, that's, of course, a disaster.

Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture.

I make people pay their debts.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid.

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.