<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Debt - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11502]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11505]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11491]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11495]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debts and lies are generally mixed together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debts and lies are generally mixed together]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11478]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the worst poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the worst poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11474</guid></item></channel></rss>