A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing
Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Debt is the worst poverty.
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.
Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
God often pays debts without money.
He that dies pays all his debts.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.
If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.