Italian Proverb

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

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’?

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

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

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

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

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.

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

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

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

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

We all think we’re going to get out of debt.

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

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

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