Josh Billings Quotes

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime; it taints the course of life in all its dreams.

I'm the king of debt.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they're charged back up. Then you're in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You're in a hole that's twice as deep - and twice as steep.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.