Debt Quotes

Debts and lies are generally mixed together
Francois Rabelais

Debt is the slavery of the free

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
Paul Clitheroe

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing

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

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







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