Credit Quotes - page 3

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit. (Françoise Sagan)
Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution. View quote
Edmund Burke
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. View quote
Henry James
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it. View quote
Joseph Addison
It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am. View quote
Mandy Patinkin
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. View quote
Jean Rostand
THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend. (Benjamin Graham)
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after. View quote
Joyce Brothers
Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way. View quote
William Howard Taft
The only road, the sure road to unquestioned credit and a sound financial condition is the exact and punctual fulfilment of every pecuniary obligation, public and private, according to its letter and spirit. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Be careful about extending credit, too, and doubly careful about refusing to extend it. View quote
Gene Wolfe
Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept? View quote
Walter Bagehot
I can't see heaven but I credit hell - I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home. View quote
John Brunner
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Credit you give yourself is not worth having. (Irving Thalberg)
Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it. View quote
Irving Thalberg
An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be. View quote
Edward Bellamy
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson