Owing A Debt Quotations

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

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