Benjamin Franklin

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

He who promises runs in debt.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

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

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

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

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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

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…

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

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Interest on debts grow without rain.

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