Ogden Nash Quotes

A man in debt is so far a slave.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Get rid of debt now.

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

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

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.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

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

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.

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.

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

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I often say that paying off your debt is like dieting. There are no miracle cures; it takes discipline and hard work.

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

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

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.

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.