The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money. — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Transparency was a guardian of frugality, just as confusion had been a handmaiden of extravagance.” — John Micklethwait Copy Share Image
For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism — John Lane Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I’ll eventually replace my charity clothes with things I’ll buy for myself, but not until I’ve worn them through.” — Jennifer Cody Copy Share Image
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We’re taught we can pay for everything we need. Our very lives can be purchased, and by extension, we can buy the… — Elizabeth Willard Thames Copy Share Image
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The funeral carriage went slowly. It looked quite expensive, but that was Cockbill Street for you. People put money by. Vimes remembered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut… — Elise Boulding Copy Share Image
“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Hell, you ought to go see a doctor, Dad," I told him. "You probably just need some kind of pep-up medicine. Why… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“ I'm Losing Faith in My Favorite Country Throughout my life, the United States has been my favorite country, save and except… — Stephen Douglass Copy Share Image
“It's interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image