Col. Henry Crown

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

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.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Interest on debts grow without rain.

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

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

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