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Unknown Author (top)
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
- Unknown Author
The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.
- Unknown Author
Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.
- Unknown Author


Ambrose Bierce (top)
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
- Ambrose Bierce


Joyce Brothers (top)
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift.... The hangover comes the day after.
- Joyce Brothers


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Benjamin Franklin (top)
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
- Benjamin Franklin


Thomas Fuller (top)
Debt is the worst poverty.
- Thomas Fuller


Edgar Watson Howe (top)
No man's credit is as good as his money.
- Edgar Watson Howe


Kin Hubbard (top)
Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?
- Kin Hubbard


American Proverb (top)
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
- American Proverb
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
- American Proverb


Will Rogers (top)
Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
- Will Rogers


Earl Wilson (top)
Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's.
- Earl Wilson