Frugality Quote by Seneca the Younger

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of…

— Edmund Burke

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison,…

— Edmund Burke

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

— Samuel Johnson

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

— Seneca the Younger

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want…

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

— Epicurus

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

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If we fasten our attention on what we have, rather than on what we lack, a very little wealth is sufficient.

— Francis Johnson

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness…

— Anonymous

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

— Voltaire