Debt is a bottomless sea.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Borrowing Quotes, Debt Quotes

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an...

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely,...

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely,...

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the...

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the...

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this...

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this...

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is...

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is...

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief...

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief...

The purpose of man is in action, not thought.

The purpose of man is in action, not thought.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin;...

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin;...

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the...

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the...

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions