Paul Laurence Dunbar Quotes

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

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

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

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.

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.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

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?'

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

We cannot allow the heavy weight of the debt to bring us to our knees..

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

It's a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

Weddings are super expensive. It is difficult to make money, but it flows out in weddings. Everybody wants it so elaborate without realizing it. People take loans to impress people. We didn't want to do that.

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

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.

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

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

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

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

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.

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

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

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