Quotes About Frugality

I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire.

I do not have AC, TV, microwave or a washing machine in my house.

Spare not, nor spend too much, be this thy care, Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare. Who spends too much may want, and so complain; But he spends best that spares to spend again.

Money was never an issue in our house, mostly because my parents never saw a need to spend much.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.

Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.

I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.

My parents are super cheap.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.

Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.

For the first year I lived in New York, I never ate out. I literally just ate lentils and brown rice at home. Sometimes I'd treat myself to this half chicken from Chinatown that cost $3.50.

I want to create my own living space and grow my own food instead of paying someone to supply those for me.

I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.

The heap of dirty dishes was normal for Arthur, who had applied for a reduction in his water rate on the grounds that he washed up only every fortnight, and then used the leftover liquid for watering his roses.

He grinned. "It's cheaper than that

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.