Quotations on Credit

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

~ Unknown

Buying on trust is the way to pay double.

~ Unknown

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Remember that credit is money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

~ Sir Walter Scott

A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

~ Charles Dickens

A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.

~ Proverbs

- Spanish Proverb

Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

~ Horace Walpole

No man's credit is as good as his money.

~ Ed Howe