Thomas Tusser

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

We all think we’re going to get out of 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’?

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill!

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

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

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

When you get in debt you become a slave.