Consumption Quote by Elise Boulding

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding…

— Elise M. Boulding

Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t…

— Ramit Sethi

Frugality is misery in disguise.

— Publilius Syrus

“Being frugal doesn’t mean slashing your spending or depriving yourself of things that you enjoy. It means knowing the value of a dollar and…

— Frank Sonnenberg

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ...…

— Isabella Beeton

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

— Horace

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

— Justinian I

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Frugality without creativity is deprivation.”

— Amy Dacyczyn

Frugality is for the vulgar.

— Francois Rabelais

“There are notable differences between the frugal and the cheap. Frugal people take pleasure in saving and cheap people feel pained by spending.”

— Scott Sonenshein

“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas…

— Yuval Noah Harari