Debt Quotes

He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter.

I have discovered the philosophers stone, that turns everything into gold: it is, “Pay as you go.”

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Forgetfulness, n.: A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Interest on debts grow without rain.

The Golden Age of the small farmer is over. He can barely get along. He is in debt to the cattle-dealer, the land speculator, the usuerer. Mortgages ruin whole communities, even more than taxes.