Debt Quote by Bernard Levin

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

— Paul Krugman

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

— James Grant

The borrower runs in his own debt.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

— James Grant

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

— John Vanbrugh

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

— Francois Rabelais

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

— David Graeber

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

— Publilius Syrus

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

— George Washington

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

— James Grant