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

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
Ralph W. Sockman

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

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.
James H. Aughey

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare

Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
Benjamin Franklin

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
American Proverb

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

The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
James Lendall Basford

Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus

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

I owe you one.
George Colman

Paying of debts is, next to the grace of God, the best means in the world to deliver you from a thousand temptations to sin and vanity.
Patrick Delany

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

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

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

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.
Sir Matthew Hale

There 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

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton

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

Debt is the worst poverty.
Thomas Fuller

Today, 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

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
Will Rogers

Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
Benjamin Franklin

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
Dutch Proverb

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

The 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

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?
Kin Hubbard

Lose not thy own for want of asking for it; it will get thee no thanks.
Thomas Fuller (1)

Debt is the worst poverty.
Thomas Fuller

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais

Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
Seneca

No man’s credit is as good as his money.
E.W. Howe

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame his lapse into the bondage of debtor.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

Running into debt isn’t so bad. It’s running into creditors that hurts.
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A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.
Philip Dormer Stanhope

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
American Saying

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Benjamin Franklin