Balki Bartokomous

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

A man must cut down his outgoings and save his incomings if he wants to clear himself; you can’t spend your penny and pay debts with it too. Stint the kitchen if the purse is bare. Don’t believe in any way of wiping out debts except by paying hard cash. Promises make debts, and debts make promises, but promises never pay debts…

I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Debt, we’ve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains – pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies – but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.