Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

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.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

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

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

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

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Only debt is forever.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

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

Debt is the worst poverty.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill!

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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