Josh Billings Quotes

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

I'm the king of debt.

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.

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 in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

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

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

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.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

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.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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