Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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.
Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.
If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
Even when I tweeted that I was in debt, that gave me power.
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay debts, you have no idea, of the pain it gives one.
To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
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.
Debt is the worst poverty.
