Samuel Johnson

Whatever you have spend less.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

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

He that dies pays all debts.

Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.

There are but two ways of paying debt-increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. … It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits – all should share in the costs.

He who promises runs in debt.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Debt that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.