Lord Byron

The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

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

Debt that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

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

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

Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.

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.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

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

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

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.