George Herbert

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.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

The impulse dances inside the debt.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Debt that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

He who promises runs in debt.

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

A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

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

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.