The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
Death pays all debts.
A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.
Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.
The problem is indeed that one party's debt finds its counterpart in some other party's savings. Not paying debts therefore involves annulling some other party's financial claims on the debtor.
It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse.
I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.
It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.
[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.
The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
