Rutherford B. Hayes

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

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

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

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

Debt is the worst poverty.

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Debt that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Debt, we’ve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains – pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies – but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

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