Ezra Pound

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

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

Interest on debts grow without rain.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.

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

A man must cut down his outgoings and save his incomings if he wants to clear himself; you can’t spend your penny and pay debts with it too. Stint the kitchen if the purse is bare. Don’t believe in any way of wiping out debts except by paying hard cash. Promises make debts, and debts make promises, but promises never pay debts…

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

We all think we’re going to get out of debt.

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

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