Muriel Spark Quotes

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.

It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

The first time I had money, I was extravagant, but then you realise it's not just about that. If I lost it all tomorrow, it wouldn't be me that's hurt, it would be my babies. It would be more about people's opinion of me that would concern me.

I have never had personal debt and never will.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.

I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.

When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to show everyone that life is different: it's a new kind of life; we are earning this money. We wanted to pay taxes and live honestly.

I thought it'd be different. Kind of like, a lot of weight lifted off of my shoulders, as I don't have to worry about finances for the rest of my life, or my family's. But it wasn't like that. It was more - there's things I need to get done.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

Good debt is a powerful tool, but bad debt can kill you.

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

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.