Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

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.

Only debt is forever.

He that dies pays all debts.

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

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

We all think we’re going to get out of debt.

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.

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’?

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

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.

There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.

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

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