Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

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

Overwhelming, student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families, and saving for retirement.

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

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.

Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

If you have credit card debt and credit card companies continue to close down the cards, what are you going to do? What are you going to do if they raise your interest rates to 32 percent? That's five times higher than what your kid is going to pay in interest on a student loan. Get rid of your credit card debt.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.

I'm the king of debt.

Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

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.

When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don't have to give.

I was so terrified that the business would not do well and that there would be no way that I would be in a position to pay my dad back this $80,000. At Stars, as a line cook, I think that I was making $10 or $12 an hour. So $80,000 - to have to pay that back was incomprehensible.

I thought it'd be different. Kind of like, a lot of weight lifted off of my shoulders, as I don't have to worry about finances for the rest of my life, or my family's. But it wasn't like that. It was more - there's things I need to get done.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.