Francois Rebelais

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.

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

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

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

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

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

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.