Creditor Quotes

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

In many of our Plantations of late Years, by bad Management and Extravagancies, the Majority of the People are become Debtors, hence their Elected Representation in the Legislature have a great Chance to be generally of the Debtors Side: or in other Words, the Representatives being generally Freeholders, and many of them much in Debt; by large Emissions their Lands rise in Denomination Value while their Debts become really less, and the Creditor is defrauded in Part of his Debt.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

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

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

When you default on a secured debt, the creditor takes the asset that backs up that debt. When you convert credit card debt to mortgage debt, you are securing that credit card debt with your home. That's a risky proposition.

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.

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

Whenever you borrow money, the people you borrow it from have leverage over you.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

If someone owed you a large amount of money, you probably would make quite a few attempts to get it back. Not the federal government.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.