Russian Proverb

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.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

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

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

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

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

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

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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