Keyword: Debt

Debt: A trap which a man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer & radio host

Love conquers all things… except poverty and toothache.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to ‘Until debt do us part.’

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

My sister just got married; I was the maid of debt in that little event.

(1965 – ) American comedian

Many Americans have got debts; we want those Americans to be able to pay off that debts.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem; if you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.

(1892 – 1976) oil industrialist (once world’s richest man)

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

(1908 – 1994) American actor

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

(1907 – 1987) journalist & columnist

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Budget: A schedule for going into debt systematically.

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

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Let the kids pay it – they still owe us rent and gas money.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing – and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator