Josh Billings

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

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

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

Interest on debts grow without rain.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

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.

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

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.

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

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

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

Debt is the slavery of the free.

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.