Chinua Achebe

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

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’?

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

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

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

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

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

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…