Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

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

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

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

In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

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

There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.

Debt is the worst poverty.

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

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

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’?

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

Debt, we’ve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains – pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies – but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.