P. J. O’Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

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

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

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

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

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.

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

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

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

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

Debt certainly isn’t always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.

I took my power back, like, ‘Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West

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

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