Cicero

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

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

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

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

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

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

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

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

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

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…

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

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.