Debt

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Pubilius Syrus

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Dave Ramsey

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

Don’t let your mouth write no check that your tail can’t cash.

Bo Diddley

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

Thomas Jefferson

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Jesse Jones

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety. If your friend is in distress, aid him if you have the means to spare. If he fails to be able to return it, it is only so much lost.

Andrew Jackson

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Moliere

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

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Wendell Phillips

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Ezra Pound

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Earl Wilson

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Publilius Syrus

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

Andrew Jackson

Today, there are three kinds of people: the have’s, the have-not’s, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have’s.

Earl Wilson

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

John Maynard Keynes

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Michael Mihalik

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Cicero

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

Earl Wilson

Debt. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Ambrose Bierce

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Cicero

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

Benjamin Franklin

I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.

Ernie Banks

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

Oscar Wilde

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Malcolm Forbes

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Andrew Jackson

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

George Prentice

No man’s credit is as good as his money.

E.W. Howe

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Benjamin Franklin

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Warren Buffet

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Aesop

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

Sammy Davis Jr.

It is possible to pay another man’s debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place.

Carl Lofmark

I’m in debt. I am a true American.

Balki Bartokomous

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Leonard Orr

Debt is the worst poverty.

Thomas Fuller

I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more.

Alan Greenspan

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

Bill Balance

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.

James Lendall Basford

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Moliere

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Barack Obama

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.

George Washington

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Austin O´Malley

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Will Rogers

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Francois Rabelais

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Benjamin Disraeli

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.

James H. Aughey

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Herbert Hoover

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

Norbert Wiener

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sir Philip Sidney

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

Andrew Jackson

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

Earl Wilson

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bob Proctor

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Rutherford B Hayes

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

The impulse dances inside the debt.

Jareb Teague

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

Gordon Liddy

Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.

Robert Quinlin

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

Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

Samuel Johnsom

Debt is the worst poverty.

Thomas Fuller

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound.

Samuel Johnson

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

George Herbert

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

John Maynard Keynes

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Suze Orman

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Thomas Tusser

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Thomas Carlyle

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

William Wycherley

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

Dave Ramsey

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

Sir Philip Sidney

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Daniel Hannan

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Louie Anderson

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Francois Rabelais

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

Pubulius Syrus

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

James Madison

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Robert Green Ingersoll

He who has debt, shall not be free.

Goran Persson

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

Bill Clinton

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

Everett Dirksen

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Benjamin Disraeli