John Vanbrugh Quotes

The only thing wrong with student loans is that you have to pay them back.

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.

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.

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.

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

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

The farmer may often have suffered from excessive interest and grasping creditors; but it was no less frequently the avarice of the lender that got him into trouble than the fact that he was too sanguine and too prone to believe that he could safely go into debt, on the assumption that crops and prices in the future would equal those in the present.

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

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.

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

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

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

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

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.

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

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.