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.

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

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’?

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

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

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

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

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.