William Shakespeare Quotes

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

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

The only thing wrong with student loans is that you have to pay them back.

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.

Money is always a pressure.

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

Borrowed money, even when owing to a nation by another nation, should be repaid. They hired the money, didn't they? Let them pay it.

International debts are like bills submitted to pay for the damage done on a wild party by one's grandfather. The payment seems to the debtor like pure loss, and when it is paid by one nation to another it seems the tribute by the conquered to the conqueror.

We have spent years robbing Peter to pay Paul until now Paul is also broke.

Money often costs too much.

Overwhelming, student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families, and saving for retirement.

I was so terrified that the business would not do well and that there would be no way that I would be in a position to pay my dad back this $80,000. At Stars, as a line cook, I think that I was making $10 or $12 an hour. So $80,000 - to have to pay that back was incomprehensible.

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

Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

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

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

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.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

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.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.