Creditor Quotes

• It doesn't mean that they can't get the judgment against you, but as a practical matter, the creditor is not going to be able to collect on it.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Matter
  • Judgment
  • Creditor

• First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the security of some tangible object. Such claims are among the earliest fruits of a commercial civilization, and are nearly always affected the same way, viz. by the deposit or pledge of the security with the creditor, to be redeemed or returned on the payment of the debt.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Security
  • Civilization
  • Payment

• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

  

  Bartholomew Roberts
  • Liberty
  • Labor
  • Merry

• To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Money
  • Debt
  • Object

• Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faith
  • Public
  • Bank

• People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Find
  • Creditor

• No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Honor
  • Promise
  • Regard