Debt is the worst poverty.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Debt is dumb. Cash is king.
A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
He that dies pays all debts.
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
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.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
