Quotes About Thrift

I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

It is true that thrift was enjoined by Bushido, but not for economical reasons so much as for the exercise of abstinence

Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.

I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.

Vintage stores are great for jeans.

I've always enjoyed searching for clothes. I like thrift stores and vintage stuff, and not so much going to Urban Outfitters. What got me interested is having to choose dresses for the carpet, and doing a lot of shoots with really cool clothes. I've gotten to try on a lot of things that I've liked, and some things that I haven't.

My personal closet has mostly vintage and thrift store finds because I like to recycle in many ways.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

Believe where others doubt. Work where others refuse. Save where others waste. Stay where others quit. And you will Win where others lose.

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

Thrift is of great revenue.

He had been born thrifty which was fortunate, for he was too earnest and humble ever to win earthly riches.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.