American Proverb

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

A man must cut down his outgoings and save his incomings if he wants to clear himself; you can’t spend your penny and pay debts with it too. Stint the kitchen if the purse is bare. Don’t believe in any way of wiping out debts except by paying hard cash. Promises make debts, and debts make promises, but promises never pay debts…

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

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.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.