Quotes about debt

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

— John Barrymore

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

— Ruth Benedict

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

— Kenneth Clarke

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

— Charles Dickens

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Debt is the worst poverty.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— James Grant

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

— James Howell

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.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Lee Iacocca

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

— Samuel Johnson

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

— George S. Kaufman

One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.

— Garrison Keillor

Money is a poor man's credit card.

— Marshall Mcluhan

In the midst of life we are in debt.

— Ethel Watts Mumford

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

— George D. Prentice

To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.

— Matthew Prior

Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.

— Proverb

Out of debt, out of danger.

— Proverb

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

— Dutch Proverb

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

— English Proverb

God often pays debts without money.

— Irish Proverb

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

— Irish Proverb

Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.

— G. Randolf

You build on cost and you borrow on value.

— Paul Reichmann

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Ivan Shaffer

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

— William Shakespeare

Words pay no debts.

— William Shakespeare

He that dies pays all his debts.

— William Shakespeare

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Terence

If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.

— Source Unknown

Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

— Source Unknown

If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.

— Source Unknown

Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing

— Source Unknown

Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.

— Source Unknown

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

— John Updike

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

— Paul Volcker

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

— Simone Weil

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

— Earl Wilson

Nowadays people can be divided into three classes -- the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves

— Earl Wilson

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

— Pearl S. Buck