It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.


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We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY
I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS
There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES
I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH
I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
I could never hate anyone I knew.
CHARLES LAMB
Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many oth...
CHARLES DANCE
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more...
CHARLES SAATCHI
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ...
CHARLES WOLFE
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any...
CHARLES TUPPER
My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom...
CHARLES KELLEY
I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w...
CHARLES DICKENS
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official...
CHARLES PEGUY
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ...
CHARLES MACKAY
Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ...
CHARLES MICHEL
In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ...
CHARLES MICHEL
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
CHARLES WESLEY
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
CHARLES READE
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...
CHARLES DICKENS