Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. – English Proverb
God often pays debts without money. – Proverb
A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. – Proverb
An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. – Proverb
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt. – Proverb
Out of debt, out of danger. – Proverb
People lend only to the rich. – Proverb
Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. – Proverb
Quick to borrow is always slow to pay. – Proverb
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a mans substance with invisible teeth. – Henry Ward Beecher
A mans indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. – Ruth Benedict
Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. – Josh Billings
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. – Josh Billings
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
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. – Pearl Buck
Dont 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
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts — you have no idea of the pain it gives one. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. – Thomas Carlyle
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
