Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

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

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

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

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.

You wait till the money is there before you give it back.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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.

No company can promise an end date, but if you have multiple debts, the first one should be settled within a year.

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

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

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

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

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

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

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

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

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

I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

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.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

After the campaign we shall place a list of those who have not paid in the hands of the head of the department you are in.

Pay to the last farthing!