Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one.

Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.

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

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

Interest on debts grow without rain.

You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip.

To rob Peter to pay Paul.

The debtor is always in the wrong.

It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.

It is better to pay, and have but little left, than to have much, and be always in debt.