Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

He that will be surety, shall pay.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they're charged back up. Then you're in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You're in a hole that's twice as deep - and twice as steep.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

He that hath little is the lesse durtie.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.