If you lend a person any money it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted or else you must lose that friend.
—Plautus
Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
Sunday, February 09, 2020
Monday, April 04, 2016
Post #2046
Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes both sinew and bone; its jaw is the pitiless grave.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Monday, January 18, 2016
Post #1991
I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold: it is " Pay as you go."
—John Randolph
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Post #1403
The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
—J.L. Basford
—J.L. Basford
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character