Quotes About Thrift

Ellis had a strain of thrift, derived from a Scotch ancestry, and a tenacious memory for financial details.

ambition on a beer budget.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Tucker the mouse said I learned the value of ecomonicness - which means savings

Economy is the thief of time.

Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

The best is the cheapest.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

The way to build your savings is by spending less each month.

Cut back your spending now.

I'm not very good with spending money.

Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

I don't like spending money.

I'm not a spendthrift. It's hard enough to earn!

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Want to know the Duggar family motto? 'Buy used, and save the difference.'

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.