Quotes on Debt

These quotes have something in common … not one of them says anything good about debt.

1. Who goeth a-borrowing, Goeth a-sorrowing. ~ Thomas Tusser
2. Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~ American Proverb
3. 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
4. Debt is the worst poverty. ~ Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
5. No man’s credit is as good as his money. ~ E.W. Howe, Sinner Sermons
6. When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~ Bill Balance
7. Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ~ Benjamin Franklin
8. Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ~ Ogden Nash
9. A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
10. Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
11. Debt is the slavery of the free. ~ Publius Syrus
12. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan doth oft lose both itself and friend.” ~William Shakespeare