Debt Quotes

The moment you make a man feel the weight of obligation, he will become your enemy.

Don’t hurry so fast to get rich that you do harm. Don’t put up your goods to back someone else’s loans. Why should your bed be carted off for someone else’s bad debt? (Proverbs)

You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip.

To rob Peter to pay Paul.

The debtor is always in the wrong.

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.