Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
We all think we’re going to get out of debt.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound.
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no mans surety.
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
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’?
Only debt is forever.
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
