Ed Wynn Quotes

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

We cannot allow the heavy weight of the debt to bring us to our knees..

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

I love to pick tomatoes at the end of the day, when they're still warm from the sun.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait.

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

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

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

Finance ministers the world over, responsible for assuring the service of the internal debts by forcing down the standards of living, do not find the matter so simple. They observe that the average man today finds the problem of making both ends meet a serious one. They are well aware that he demands something out of life over and above the bare necessities, and they have a realistic view of the situation created when a government demands this margin in taxes or takes it by inflation.

I'm the sole provider for my child, I don't get any help. I'm not saying we're poverty stricken, but it does mean I have to work hard.

Women hate a debt as men a gift.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.

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

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

The cost of living keeps going up, although death is surprisingly affordable.

The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.