Quotes About Frugality

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

Look after the pennies, and the pounds always looked after themselves.

We should have made do at home. We threw away so much food." Ricky says, "We ran out of ketchup," and the rest of them concur. No ketchup, no dinner.

That proves to be most wasted which is covetously and distrustfully spared.

After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings;

The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation  to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.

If the pastor doesn't give you money for the household, earn something and put aside savings for emergencies. Spend what you need but just throw even a few coins into a tin and forget that you have it. A woman should always have something put by.

he believed that a man must learn constantly. He loathed waste of any kind,

Spend what you need but just throw even a few coins into a tin and forget that you have it. A woman should always have something put by.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

Personally, I don't bother with anything cheap—my mother always said cheap was dear in the long run—but some people aren't fussy.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Plain food is quite good enough for me.

He's probably quite good at mathematical calculations, but he doesn't seem to have ever handled accounts of money. Because we have always been poor,

Time was when I could come home from my travels with many pretty old things stowed away among my shirts and socks. But that was long ago, before the German troubled the world, before we fell to turning every penny twice over, before the tax collector claimed the third rasher of bacon on the dish. Also it seems that the pretty old things grow rare as eggs of the great auk and hard to find.

Work hard, think hard, be honest, and spend little - this will "make common gold".

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Era fuerte como una bacteria resistente, y frugal como la garrapata, que se inmoviliza en un árbol y vive de una minúscula gota de sangre que chupó años atrás.

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.