Evan Esar Quotes

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It's terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not knowing whether we could pay our rent that month. Thankfully, I had a wife who was very supportive and had faith and shared my madness.

I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.

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.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

I had held titles in all the major U.K. organisations, but we were struggling to make ends meet. There were times you don't have a fight lined up, and the bills are stacking up.

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

We bought a dog, and we financed it - a $1,400 dog. We had no money, so me and my wife had to put our names together with our credit just to finance a dog.

Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.

If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

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.