C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | Usury |
| The synonyme of usury is ruin. Dr. Johnson. | 1 |
Extra interest signifies extra risk. Wellington. | 2 |
Poor rogues, and usurers men! bawds between gold and want! Shakespeare. | 3 |
Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. Bacon. | 4 |
Many have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity the devil should have Gods part, which is the tithe; that the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. Bacon. | 5 |
Usury is the land-shark and devil-fish of commerce. J. L. Basford. | 6 |
A money-lender. He serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the subjunctive; and ruins you in the future! Addison. | 7 |
Go not to a covetous old man with any request too soon in the morning, before he hath taken in that days prey; for his covetousness is up before him, and he before thee, and he is in ill-humor; but stay till the afternoon, till he be satiated upon some borrower. Fuller. | 8 |
| He was a man |
| Versed in the world as pilot in his compass; |
| The needle pointed ever to that interest |
| Which was his loadstar; and he spread his sails |
| With vantage to the gale of others passions. |
Ben Jonson. | 9 | |
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