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In the midst of life we are in debt.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger.
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
A creditor is worse than a slaveowner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
They hired the money, didn’t they?
No man’s credit is as good as his money.
There are but two ways of paying debt increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying it out.
To john I ow’d great obligation; But john, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: sure John and I are more than quit.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
I have discovered the philosopher’s stone, that turns every thing into gold: it is, “pay as you go.”
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.
Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or money borrowed; be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than to run up the score: such a man pays, at the latter end, a third part more than the principal, and is in perpetual servitude to his creditors; lives uncomfortably; is necessitated to increase his debts to stop his creditors mouths; and many times falls into desperate courses.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible. A man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life.
Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor will be in fear when you speak to him; make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose your veracity, and sink into base, down right lying; for the second vice is laying, the first is running in debt. A freeborn man ought not to be ashamed nor afraid to see or speak to any man living, but poverty often deprive a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, involving the necessity of going on in the same course. Debt following debt, as lie follows lie.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Paying of debts in, next to the grace of God, the best means of delivering you from a thousand temptations to vanity and sin. Pay your debts, and you will not have wherewithal to buy costly toys or pernicious pleasures. Pay your debts, and you will not have what to lose to a gamester. Pay your debts, and you will of necessity abstain from many indulgences that war against the spirit and bring you into captivity to sin, and cannot fail to end in your utter destruction, both of soul and body.
Ethel watts Mumford (1878-1940) American novelist, humorous writer.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer.
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George D.Prentice (1802-1870) American poet, journalist.
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.
A creditor is worse than a slaveowner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
They hired the money, didn’t they?
Calvin Collidge (1872-1933)
No man’s credit is as good as his money.
Ed (E.W.) Howe (1853-1937)
There are but two ways of paying debt increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying it out.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author.
To john I ow’d great obligation; But john, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: sure John and I are more than quit.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) English poet, diplomat.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
17th century English Proverb.
I have discovered the philosopher’s stone, that turns every thing into gold: it is, “pay as you go.”
John Randolph.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.
T.T. Munger.
Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or money borrowed; be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than to run up the score: such a man pays, at the latter end, a third part more than the principal, and is in perpetual servitude to his creditors; lives uncomfortably; is necessitated to increase his debts to stop his creditors mouths; and many times falls into desperate courses.
Sir M. hale.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
Johnson.
Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible. A man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life.
Spurgeon.
Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor will be in fear when you speak to him; make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose your veracity, and sink into base, down right lying; for the second vice is laying, the first is running in debt. A freeborn man ought not to be ashamed nor afraid to see or speak to any man living, but poverty often deprive a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Franklin.
The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, involving the necessity of going on in the same course. Debt following debt, as lie follows lie.
S. Smiles.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Bulwer.
Paying of debts in, next to the grace of God, the best means of delivering you from a thousand temptations to vanity and sin. Pay your debts, and you will not have wherewithal to buy costly toys or pernicious pleasures. Pay your debts, and you will not have what to lose to a gamester. Pay your debts, and you will of necessity abstain from many indulgences that war against the spirit and bring you into captivity to sin, and cannot fail to end in your utter destruction, both of soul and body.
Delany.
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