Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent. — Hetty Green Copy Share Image
Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any… — Zoey Deutch Copy Share Image
I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
It depends on the arrangement. It could take 3 hours, it could take 3 days, it could take a week. 'Thrift Shop'… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
And when I say [M2 was] lo-fi production, it was so great and grimy. I was used to that world anyway, because… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines… — Amy Dacyczyn Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“You don’t need fashion designers when you are young. Have faith in your own bad taste. Buy the cheapest thing in your… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores. — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income, — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars. — Lorde Copy Share Image
It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing. — James Beard Copy Share Image
“You can think of a lot of things to make out of nothing, if you have to.” — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it. — Robert Lembke Copy Share Image
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living. — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image