Quotes about Thrift

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

The disposition of everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down.

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

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.