Debt is normal. Be weird.
Debt is dumb. Cash is king.
There are but two ways of paying debt-increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.
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.
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
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’?
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Debt that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.
