Debt Quotes

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No man’s credit is as good as his money.
~E.W. Howe, Sinner Sermons

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?
~Kin Hubbard

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
~ Italian Proverb

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

‘Tis against some men’s principle to pay interest, and seems against others’ interest to pay the principle.
~Benjamin Franklin

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.
~Joyce Brothers

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

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
~ Austin O’malley

The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.
~Author Unknown

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~Benjamin Franklin

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

A man in debt is so far a slave.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debt is the slavery of the free
~Publilius Syrus

Debts and lies are generally mixed together
~Francois Rabelais

He that dies pays all debts
~ William Shakespeare

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
~American Proverb

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
~American Saying

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~Benjamin Franklin

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
~Dutch Proverb

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
~Will Rogers

Debt is the worst poverty.
~Thomas Fuller

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
~Sir Philip Sidney

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

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

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

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

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

Never spend your money before you have it.
~ Thomas Jefferson

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
~Robert Service

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
~Herbert Hoover

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
~Euripides

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

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

Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow
~Seneca

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them
~Ogden Nash

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime
~Benjamin Disraeli

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