Debt is the worst poverty.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
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.
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.
Debt is dumb. Cash is king.
Debt is normal. Be weird.
I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
We all think we’re going to get out of debt.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.
