Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

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.

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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

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

There are but two ways of paying debt-increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

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