Cato the Elder Quotes

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

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.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

Money costs too much.

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

It's a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

Women hate a debt as men a gift.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.