Croft M. Pentz

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

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

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

He that dies pays all debts.

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

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

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…

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

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

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

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Debt certainly isn’t always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.

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

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.