A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

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

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Debt is the worst poverty.

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

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

Out of debt, out of danger.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.

You build on cost and you borrow on value.

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.

Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

If you don't have some bad loans you are not in business.