Debt

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing

Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.

If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.

If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.