“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
Benjamin Franklin (verified)
“Every gift we accept is a tie. Sometimes, one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
— Albert Einstein (verified, secondary source)“Rather go to bed supperless, than run in debt for a breakfast.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“You will be careful, if you are wise; how you touch men's religion, or credit, or eyes.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“If a man owns land, the land owns him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“If you’d know the value of money, go and borrow some.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Sleep without supping, and you'll rise without owing for it.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“He that drinks fast, pays slow.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Best use of money is to pay debts.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“A light purse is a heavy curse.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Industry pays debts, despair increases them.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Now when a country does not pay its debts you cannot take its word on anything.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)