Yiddish Proverb

The impulse dances inside the debt.

Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

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

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.