Dutch Proverb

Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

The impulse dances inside the debt.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.

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

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

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

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. … It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits – all should share in the costs.