Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George D. Prentice
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
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Lord Byron
Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
Dutch Proverb
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
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
Pearl S. Buck