Debt Quotes
Sad Quotes about Debt

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung

A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
- Daniel Hannan

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties,
I'd be in debt.
- Benny Hinn

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans -
a debt we can never fully repay.
- Doc Hastings

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history
to accumulate $1 trillion in debt.
And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
- Jim Cooper

This would be a much better world if more married couples
were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
- Earl Wilson

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission
members for their valuable service and important recommendations
to improve homeland security.
- Jim Ramstad

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going
public of yesterday and today,
without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.
- Gloria Swanson

Debt is the fatal disease of republics,
the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
- Wendell Phillips

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt
to a man to whom you already owe much.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Solving a problem created by debt...
by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
- Olivier Sarkozy

I try to help developing junior chess.
When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches -
now I am trying to repay that debt.
- Boris Spassky

Wars are made to make debt.
- Ezra Pound

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.
- David Wilkerson

To vote is like the payment of a debt,
a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
- Rutherford B. Hayes

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms.
We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.
- Jennifer Dunn

A church debt is the devil's salary.
- Henry Ward Beecher

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich
are pushing us further into debt,
he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.
- Tom Harkin

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest.
I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden
to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
- Steve Israel

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled,
the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance
of public officials should be controlled.
- Ross Perot

I like my players to be married and in debt.
That's the way you motivate them.
- Ernie Banks

Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems
nearly impossible but we must try.
- Michael N. Castle

A national debt, if it is not excessive,
will be to us a national blessing.
- Alexander Hamilton

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as
it is founded on borrowing and debt.
- Henrik Ibsen

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and
abroad in our War of Independence;
therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
- Robert Toombs

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health,
out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
- Adam Smith

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
- Sammy Davis, Jr.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude
to the fans and management,
and pays an installment every time he plays.
He should never miss a payment.
- Bobby Hull

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction.
Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start
eating up virtually every penny that we have.
- Bobby Scott

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
- Euripides

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which
can be foreseen and known:
but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
- Freya Stark

We all think we're going to get out of debt.
- Louie Anderson

We players understand we have the best lives in the world.
We owe a debt of gratitude to all our fans,
everyone who supports us.
- Bruce Bowen

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a
$50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor.
There's always a depression in the theatre.
- Frances McDormand

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail,
I receive a ton of spam every day.
Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick.
It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
- Bill Gates

I think everyday people on the street who have never
been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed
with the spending and the debt that we have.
- Kristi Noem

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American
and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency
and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
- Ike Skelton

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and
Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining
the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.
- Steve Buyer

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference
to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world,
at no practical cost to creditor countries.
- Kenneth Clarke

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty.
It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
- Joel Osteen

Typically, students slide into debt through the extension
(by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.
- Robert Manning

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times,
up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren
will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
- Chaka Fattah

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
- Julia Ward Howe

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
- Leonard Orr

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000
in public debt riding on our backs.
- Paul Gillmor

I found this national debt, doubled,
wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
- Barack Obama

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt
than that he owes you nothing.
- Mark Caine

The men who start out with the notion that the world
owes them a living generally find that the world pays
its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
- William Graham Sumner

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt,
and the other half to avoid paying it.
- George Dennison Prentice

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

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
- Lukas Foss

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum;
the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
- George Gaylord Simpson

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
- Ralph W. Sockman

One of the things that Africa needs,
everybody seems to agree,
is some measure of debt relief.
- Gwen Ifill

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
- Herbert Hoover

I have no illusions about my art.
I am what the public made me and, consequently,
I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
- Conrad Veidt

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward,
not backward.
What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
- Nancy Friday

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes,
and then our fears - and when these are dead,
the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt,
And though I have struggled and struggled and strove,
I cannot get out of them yet.
- Alexander Brome

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama
administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.
- Mitch McConnell

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and
threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
- Ruben Hinojosa

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
- George Peabody

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting -
and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
- Nigel Dennis

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it.
And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means -
We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.
- Mike Pence

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try
to fix too much at once -
join a gym,
get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.
- Marilu Henner

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another
to carry their names to a throne of grace.
- William Gurnall

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
- Will Rogers