Quotes about Debt

“Words pay no debts.”

“Debt is the worst poverty.”

“He that dies pays all his debts.”

“Money is a poor man's credit card.”

“God often pays debts without money.”

“In the midst of life we are in debt.”

“When I was born I owed twelve dollars.”

“Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.”

“You build on cost and you borrow on value.”

“Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.”

“A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.”

“The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.”

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

“Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.”

“If you don't have some bad loans you are not in business.”

“A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.”

“You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.”

“We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.”

“Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.”

“Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.”

“Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.”

“The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?”

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

“Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.”

“You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.”

“It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.”

“The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.”

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

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

“If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.”