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If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.
Sep 17, 2025
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
No man's credit is as good as his money.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
..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.
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