Ambrose Bierce Quotes

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

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

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

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

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.

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.

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 man in debt is so far a slave.

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

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

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

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.

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.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

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

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

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

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