Ambrose Bierce

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill!

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

He that dies pays all debts.

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

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.