Robert Quillen Quotes

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

Money often costs too much.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

Do I have to use my own money?

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.