55 Debt Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing debt sayings.
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Short Debt Sayings
“Words pay no debts.” —William Shakespeare
“A man in debt is so far a slave.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.” —Will Rogers
“A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.” —Publilius Syrus
“Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.” —Robert Quinlin
“A man in debt is a man in chains.” —James Lendall Basford
“Debt trap can sometimes become a Death trap.” —Ankala V Subbarao
“You don’t have the body you don’t have a debt. Ask for a loan.” —Simon Mashalla
“Creditors have better memories than debtors.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.” —Unknown
“When you get in debt you become a slave.” —Andrew Jackson
“Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.” —Unknown
“Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.” —Michael Mihalik
“A promise made is a debt unpaid.” —Robert W. Service
“Debt basically enables people to live a lie.” —Rachel Cruze
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” —Herbert Hoover
“When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.” —Unknown
“Understand Karma: No debt in the universe goes unpaid.” —Unknown
“Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.” —Debasish Mridha
“There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.” —Dave Ramsey
“Debt is the worst poverty.” —Thomas Fuller
“Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.” —George Herbert
“Debt is one person’s liability, but another person’s asset.” —Paul Krugman
“Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.” —Mark Sundeen
“Interest on debts grow without rain.” —Yiddish Proverb
Debt Sayings
“Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“An honest man is a debt less man, he doesn’t owe anyone anything.” —Amit Kalantri
“The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.” —James Lendall Basford
“Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” —American Proverb
“Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.” —Unknown
“Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.” —Moliere
“Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.” —Spanish Proverb
“Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” —Nathan W. Morris
“A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.” —Italian Proverb
“The greatest enemy of financial well-being is not poverty but debt.” —Kent Nerburn
“Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.” —Unknown
“If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Debt is a four letter word and means a four word sentence – Be Prepared for Trouble.” —Lucas Remmerswaal
“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.” —P.G. Wodehouse
“Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.” —Ezra Pound
“Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.” —George Dennison Prentice
“Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.” —Ogden Nash
“Today, there are three kinds of people: the have’s, the have-not’s, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have’s.” —Earl Wilson
“There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.” —Thomas Carlyle
“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.” —Alexander Hamilton
Top Ten Debt Sayings
Here you will find top ten debt sayings selected by our team.
- “A man in debt is so far a slave.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “An honest man is a debt less man, he doesn’t owe anyone anything.” —Amit Kalantri
- “Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” —American Proverb
- “The greatest enemy of financial well-being is not poverty but debt.” —Kent Nerburn
- “Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.” —Unknown
- “Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.” —Unknown
- “Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.” —Moliere
- “Understand Karma: No debt in the universe goes unpaid.” —Unknown
- “Debt is a four letter word and means a four word sentence – Be Prepared for Trouble.” —Lucas Remmerswaal
- “Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.” —Ezra Pound
