Eoin Colfer

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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

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

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

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

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

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

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.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

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

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

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill!