Norbert Wiener

Debt is the slavery of the free.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

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

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

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

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.