Debt Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old debt quotes, debt sayings, and debt proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. Moliere
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration. Susan George
He who promises runs in debt. The Talmud
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. Andrew Ross Sorkin
Debt is great source of inner unhappiness. Debasish Mridha
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. Robert G. Ingersoll
Debts and lies are generally mixed together. Francois Rabelais
Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being. Michael Mihalik
No man's credit is as good as his money. John Dewey
Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous. #financialfitness Orrin Woodward
Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make. Spanish Proverb
Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. Margaret Atwood
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of. Josh Billings
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. Nancy Friday
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Earl Wilson
Only debt is forever. Charles Stross
Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.  Ambrose Bierce
A man in debt is so far a slave. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt is the worst poverty. Thomas Fuller
A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem. Natalie Pace
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. John Buchan
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover
Debt is normal. Be weird. Dave Ramsey
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies. James H. Aughey
He that dies pays all debts. William Shakespeare
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. Jean Chatzky
There are some debts that can't be paid with money. Steven J. Carroll
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. Ogden Nash
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. Austin O'Malley
Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. Samuel Johnson
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam Chomsky
Debt is dumb. Cash is king. Dave Ramsey
Debt basically enables people to live a lie. Rachel Cruze
Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset. Paul Krugman
An emotional debt is hard to square. Iceberg Slim
Debt trap can sometimes become a Death trap. Ankala V Subbarao
Debt is the slavery of the free. Publilius Syrus
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back. Margaret Atwood
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. Benjamin Disraeli
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. Ambrose Bierce
A promise made is a debt unpaid. Robert W. Service
Debt is a four letter word and means a four word sentence - Be Prepared for Trouble. Lucas Remmerswaal
If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours. John Maynard Keynes
You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work. Dave Ramsey
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. William J. Clinton
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. Publilius Syrus
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. Jesse H. Jones