Debt is about the only thing you can acquire without money.

Debt is terrible — a man in debt is caught in a net

Debt is worse than poverty — he that gets out of debt, grows rich.

Debt is not advisable. A debtor must often lie.

Inheritance shouldn't be counted on — A fool who waits for dead men's shoes is barefoot long.

Inheritance is plagued by a tricky motivational structure — He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

Inheritance is morally suspect — The tears of an heir are masked laughter.

Inheritance is a promoter of animosity — the rich, like pigs, they're appreciated only after their death.

Investment is wise — Put no trust in money; put your money in trust.

Investment is tricky — never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Investment is never done without risk — it costs money to make money.

Investment is a fishing line baited with a herring in the hope of catching a marlin, which briefly flirts and tugs - then escapes with our offering in its belly, prompting us to stick another herring on the hook.

A Mortgage is paid off over a lifetime, and once you finally own it, there's no one to live in it.

A Mortgage is from French 'mort', death, and English 'gag', to choke. A lawyer's invention for choking property to death.

A Mortgage is how banks enlist would-be property owners as indentured servants for a period of twenty to thirty years or until death, whichever comes first .

A Mortgage is a thing which, by the time a family pays it off for a home in the suburbs, the home isn't home, and the suburbs aren't suburbs.