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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
-Danish proverb
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
-English Proverb
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God often pays debts without money.
-Proverb
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A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
-Proverb
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An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.
-Proverb
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Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
-Proverb
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Out of debt, out of danger.
-Proverb
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People lend only to the rich.
-Proverb
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Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
-Proverb
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Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.
-Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
-Proverb
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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
-John Barrymore
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
-Ruth Benedict
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Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
-Josh Billings
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
-Josh Billings
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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
-Joyce Brothers
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
-Pearl Buck
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Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
-Lord Burleigh
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
-Thomas Carlyle
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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
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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
-Charles Dickens
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Books about Debt / Borrow / Loan
