Quotes About Frugality

HOW MUCH WEALTH should we acquire? According to Seneca, our financial goal should be to acquire "an amount that does not descend to poverty, and yet is not far removed from poverty." We should, he says, learn to restrain luxury, cultivate frugality, and "view poverty with unprejudiced eyes.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

The easiest way to get rich is to spend as little as possible.

How to Live Well on Nothing a Year.

Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors.

or cheaper.

I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvement of my talents in literature.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

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.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

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

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.

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.

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

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

you don't want to throw away your Starbucks cup, refills are only 50 cents.

Don't buy new ink cartridges, take old ones to Costco and get them filled for only $10!

Both of our parents lived their lives practicing gaman—patience and resilience," said Nobusuke, the second-born son. "They never wasted anything—not food, time, or anger. Instead, they waited for things to work out.

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.