He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means. — Ovid Copy Share Image
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
After the Texas Playboys and during that time, I had this band in college that I was in called Thrift Store Cowboys.… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.” — Eric Haney Copy Share Image
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire… — Gertrude Jekyll 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
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
Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
She could smell the boy spice beneath the thrift-store aroma of his jacket, and the rubbing and the smell began to work… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few… — Elizabeth Zimmermann 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
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I've been realizing lately how horribly vain I am. I do believe that if I'm successful, it's because of my talent and… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
“That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor. The bread he eats… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... But the thing is true; economy, properly understood, is the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
