Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.

We have to make debt evil.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

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

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.

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

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

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

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.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

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

I pay the bills, I pay for everything.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

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.