Lady Gregory Quotes

We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.

It's a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

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

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.

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

When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don't have to give.

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

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

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

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.

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.

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.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

Debt has become a part of who we are… Normal is broke in America.

There was a time (not so long ago historically) when people were put in jail for owing money. Now we not only don’t punish them, but we make it easier and easier for them to slide out of their old debts, and start getting into new ones.

You can tell when someone on TV who's supposed to be struggling to pay back loans is clearly wearing a Gucci suit or tailored to perfection.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

I'm the king of debt.