Benjamin Franklin Debt Quotations

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.