I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.
There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me. . . and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough. "
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.
The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
Our country has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation.
