Debt Quotes

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage

Bill Balance

Lying rides upon debts back.

Benjamin Franklin

Interest on debts grows without rain.

Yiddish Proverb

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Spanish Proverb

The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.

James Lendall Basford

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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

Will Rogers

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Unknown

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Moliere

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Benjamin Franklin