Benjamin Franklin

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

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.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

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

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

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

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.

Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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

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

Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.