version, edition or translation

Mortgage

Not who you're looking for? Others named Mortgage: 1990 film by Bill Bennett

Notable quotes

“I hold every man a debtor to his profession.”
— Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law, Preface; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 181.
“There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.”
— Reverend Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), English cleric and writer. Lacon; or, Many Things in Few Words (1823).
“Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.”
— Rutherford B. Hayes, Diary (July 13, 1879).
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.”
— Charles Lamb (1775-1834). 'The Two Races of Men', Essays of Elia (1823).
“Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”
— Robert W. Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee, l. 33 (1907).
“I have never, ever borrowed a penny. So I have zero credit record. No loans, no mortgage, nothing. Ever. When I had no money, I rented. I have an allergy to borrowing and a scorn for people who are in debt, and I don’t hide it. I follow the Romans’ attitude that debtors are not free people.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, as quoted by Adrienne Westenfield, "Nassim Nicholas Taleb Has Never Borrowed a Cent in His Life", Esquire.com, 2018-04-20, accessed accessed 2019-09-11

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.