Debt Quotes

1. Thomas Fuller - "Debt is the worst poverty."

2. Publilius Syrus - "Debt is the slavery of the free."

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

4. Ogden Nash - "Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them."

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

6. Benjamin Franklin - "Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt."

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson - "A man in debt is so far a slave."

8. George Herbert - "Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."

9. Publilius Syrus - "A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy."

10. Benjamin Disraeli - "Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime."

11. Thomas Jefferson - "And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."

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

13. Unknown - "Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts."

14. Jesse H. Jones - "One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back."

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

16. Benjamin Franklin - "'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle."

17. Alexander the Great - "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."

18. Robert Green Ingersoll - "A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field."

19. Thomas Jefferson - "Never spend your money before you have it."

20. Austin O'Malley - "A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory."

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