Charles Stross

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

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

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

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

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in 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.

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

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

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

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

There are but two ways of paying debt-increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.