Quotes About Thrifty

I'm very particular but very thrifty at the same time.

We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.

There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it.

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.

It's very well to be thrifty, but don't amass a hoard of regrets.

Being Scottish, I'm probably a little tight, or as the Scots say, 'You're cautious with your money.' I don't think that 's the worst thing in the world to be.

It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

I am a sale shopper. I love a discounted item.

A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.

The Obama campaign has adeptly used YouTube and social networks as a relatively thrifty way to do targeted messaging.

Mother always tries to buy things for a reasonable price. I was never allowed to buy things at full price. Probably, it's rooted in the Chinese mentality. We are very thrifty.

the landlord, Mr. El Cheap-o Thompkins

All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

The Girl Scout's motto is also mine. I fill my life with worthwhile deeds such as — well, never mind what. My duty is —to be useful. I am a friend to male animals. I am cheerful. I am thrifty and I am absolutely filthy in thought, word, and deed.

I am quite stingy when it comes to giving runs away.

We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

He's always been known to be entrepenurious.

Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The

Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull.

I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.