Debt Quotes

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.

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.