No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn’t give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

First and foremost, they had the curses of the country: and Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the new heir, in the next place, on account of this affront to the body, refused to pay a shilling of...

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run…

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts.

Our debts don’t leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And...

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Svako ima svoj dug – reče Etna. Takav je život, Marija Baring. Dugovi i zaduživanja, obaveze, zahvalnost, plata… Nekome nešto učiniš. Možda i sebi? Jer zaista, plaćamo uvek sebi, ne nekome. Za sve što smo...

For my own Part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring Favours, but as paying Debts. In my Travels, and since my Settlement, I have received much...