Debt is the worst poverty.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
When you get in debt you become a slave.
If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.
You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?