Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
- Ogden Nash

Rather to go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
- Benjamin Franklin

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
- Publilius Syrus

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best
God! but the interest!
- Paul Laurence Dunbar

Who goes a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.
- Thomas Tusser

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
- Samuel Johnson

A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin