Josh Billings

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

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…

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

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

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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

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

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

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

Debt is the slavery of the free.

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.