Quotes on Owing A Debt

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.