| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander the Great | I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. |
| Ambrose Bierce | Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. |
| Austin O Malley | A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. |
| Benjamin Franklin | 'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. |
| Dr Joyce Brothers | Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after. |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves. |
| George Herbert | Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | A church debt is the devil's salary. |
| Italian Proverb | A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt. |
| Jesse H Jones | One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. |
| Lord Byron | It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one. |
| Ogden Nash | Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. |
| Publilius Syrus | Debt is the slavery of the free. |
| Publilius Syrus | A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. |
| Samuel Johnson | Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. |
| Source Unknown | Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. |
| The Talmud | He who promises runs in debt. |
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