Quotes About Thrift

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

The same man who will quote from Benjamin Franklin on thrift for the house organ would be horrified if consumers took these maxims to heart and started putting more money into savings and less into installment purchases.

How to Live Well on Nothing a Year.

Some people were in the park pretending it was warm, exercising that necessary Scottish thrift with weather which hoards every good day in the hope of some year amassing a summer. The scene was a kind of Method School of Weather—a lot of people trying to achieve a subjective belief in the heat in the hope of convincing one another.

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In California in general, and its northwest corner in particular, the central role of money in indigenous societies was combined with a cultural emphasis on thrift and simplicity, a disapproval of wasteful pleasures, and a glorification of work that – according to Goldschmidt – bore an uncanny resemblance to the Puritan attitudes described by Max Weber in his famous 1905 essay, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

Cheaper'n recyclin' yer nose tissues. --Mema