Joyce Brothers

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

Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

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

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

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 can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Debt certainly isn’t always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.

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.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

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

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

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

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.