Debt Quotes

“There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.”

“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.”

“Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.”

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend."

"Never spend your money before you have it."

Thomas Jefferson

"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared."

Thomas Jefferson

"Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt."

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."

"Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them."

“Never spend your money before you have it.”

Thomas Jefferson

“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”

"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

“Debt: an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.”

Ambrose Bierce