Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

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

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

I took my power back, like, ‘Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West

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

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

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay debts, you have no idea, of the pain it gives one.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

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

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. … It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits – all should share in the costs.