Quotes On Debt – Part 3
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
– Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Run not into debt, either for wares sold or money borrowed; be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than to run up the score.
– Sir Matthew Hale
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
– Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
– Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
A small debt makes a debtor; a heavy one makes an enemy.
– Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
– Norbert Wiener