Debt Quotes, Sayings about owing money
+1Debt is the worst poverty.
- Thomas Fuller
+1He who promises runs in debt.
- The Talmud
+1A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I’m in debt. I am a true American.
- Balki Bartokomous
+1The impulse dances inside the debt.
- Jareb Teague
+1A church debt is the devil’s salary.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.
- Thomas Tusser
+1No man’s credit is as good as his money.
- Edgar Watson Howe
+1Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
- American Saying
+1Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
- Robert Green
+1A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
- Austin O’malley
+1Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
- George Herbert
+1He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
+1Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
- Edward G. Bulwer
+1Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
- American Proverb
+1When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
- Bill Balance
+1A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
- Italian Proverb
+1Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?
- Kin Hubbard
+1Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
- Moliere
+1Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
+1It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
- Lord Byron
+1Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
- Samuel Johnson
+1One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.
- Jesse H. Jones
+1Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
- George D. Prentice
+1Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
- Ogden Nash
+1Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Tis against some men’s principle to pay interest, and seems against others’ interest to pay the principle.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Today, there are three kinds of people: the have’s, the have-not’s, and the have not paid for what they have’s.
- Earl Wilson
+1Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I’d be too poor to need an anti theft alarm.
- Gina Rothfels
+1There 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
+1Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
- Wendell Phillips
+1Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan doth oft lose both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
+1The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1If you had it to do over again, would you inhale? A.- Sure, if I could… I tried before!
- Bill Clinton
