Frugal Quotes · Page 3

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

— Democritus

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

— Benjamin Franklin

Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on…

— Sudha Murty

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

— Pope Leo XIII

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

— Charlie Byrd

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

— Earl Wilson

I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.

— Akira Toriyama

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for…

— Edward Young

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the…

— Vivienne Westwood

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20…

— Patti Smith

“Allocating time and money in the pursuit of looking superior often has a predictable outcome: inferior economic achievement. What are three words…

— Thomas J. Stanley

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I…

— John Barrowman

I'm frugal. It's often cheaper to take the subway. And I'm an environmentalist, which my mother instilled in me, so I really…

— Chloe Sevigny

I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound.…

— Emily Dickinson

Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to…

— Paul Klee

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in…

— Alton Brown

I was always the frugal kid growing up because I was saving for college. Or I was always that kid that was…

— Shailene Woodley

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that…

— Benjamin Rush

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,…

— Russell Kirk

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general…

— John Adams

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S.…

— Ron Paul

By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom…

— Adam Smith

Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways.

— Patrick Pichette

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

— Benjamin Franklin

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're…

— Benjamin Franklin

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you…

— Sam Altman

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

— Antoni Porowski

I love kitchenware. I'm very frugal and I don't buy a lot of things, but I'm frivolous when it comes to buying…

— Michelle Zauner

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

— Anonymous

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.

— Benjamin Franklin

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

— Clarence Thomas

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich represent the big government frugal socialist wing of the party. And I represent the true constitutional conservative…

— Michele Bachmann

So many people joke that life with me - a professed lifelong penny pincher - must be tough. But [my husband] is…

— Michelle Singletary

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I…

— Ashley Greene

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative…

— Tom Bethell