Quotes About Frugality

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.

Don't waste Money, Time or Mental Energy.

Penny wise pound foolish.

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

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

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

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.

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

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.