Michelle Obama Quotes

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

I love, love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love.

Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.

Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.

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

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

When you get in debt you become a slave.