Charles Stross

A man in debt is so far a slave.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

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

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

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

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

Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

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.