Debt proverbs

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◆ A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

- Austin O'Malley98

◆ Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people

- Wendell Phillips98

◆ It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place

- Carl Lofmark98

◆ Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime

- Benjamin Disraeli98

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

- Ogden Nash98

◆ Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow

- Seneca98

◆ 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 have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic

- George Washington98

◆ I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more

- Alan Greenspan98