Quelle: Children of God
„Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill!“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Suum Cuique
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill!
— Nguyễn Du, The Tale of Kieu
Original: (vi) Duyên hội ngộ, đức cù lao,
Bên tình bên hiếu, bên nào nặng hơn?
Để lời thệ hải minh sơn,
Làm con trước phải đền ơn sinh thành.
Quelle: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 601–604
„I write for love, but love doesn’t pay the bills.“
— Stephen King, buch The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Quelle: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
— Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951
Quelle: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
„Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„991. Speake not of my debts, unlesse you mean to pay them.“
— George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, buch Die Nebel von Avalon
Gwenhwyfar
The Mists of Avalon (1983)
„We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.“
— John Buchan British politician 1875 - 1940
Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI (12 May 1937)
„Are you truly living life or just paying bills until you die?“
— Jay Samit American businessman 1961
Future Proofing You (2021)
— Isabel II do Reino Unido queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and head of the Commonwealth of Nations 1926
Message from the Queen, read by the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, St Thomas's Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue. 22 September 2001. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1341155/Grief-is-price-of-love-says-the-Queen.html
— Rick Santorum American politician 1958
Santorum's Message To People Who Can't Afford Health Care Costs: Lower Your Cell Phone Bill
Think Progress
Igor
Volsky
2011-08-08
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/08/08/290934/santorums-message-to-people-who-cant-afford-health-care-costs-lower-your-cell-phone-bill/
2011-08-11
— Cheryl Strayed, buch Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Quelle: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
„To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.“
— John Kenneth Galbraith American economist and diplomat 1908 - 2006
Quelle: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter VIII, The Great Compromise, p. 90
Kontext: In numerous years following the war the Federal government ran a heavy surplus. It could not pay off it's debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits
English Traits (1856), reprinted in The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. 2 (Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870), p. 206 ( full text at GoogleBooks http://books.google.com/books?id=21IRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA206)
„And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.“
— Joyce Kilmer American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886 - 1918
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), In Memory
Kontext: Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover
The angry scar to which the world was blind:
And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.
