Unpaid Debt Quotes

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity.

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

I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know.

When everybody is supposed to pay, nobody seems to get the bill.

I'm not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you'll pay late.

... for some of us life always comes C.O.D.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.

The United States will never be able to pay us [Blacks] all they owe us. They don't have the money.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

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.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

For my first big Fashion Week event, the factory wouldn't give me my clothes because I didn't have the $25,000 it cost to make them.

“America begins in black plunder and white democracy.” I appreciate the day off today to finally fully read The Case for Reparations. . . . I grew up feeling superior (hah, how white of me) because I was from New England and my part of the country didn’t have slaves, or so I’d been taught. . . . Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day.

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.