Frugality Quotes - Page 3

• So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Successful, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.478

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• Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Men, Needs

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• 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

  People, Thrifty, Avarice

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• Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Sober, Frugal

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1815*). “The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin”, p.210

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• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.72, Cosimo Classics

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• What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Two, Vices

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.251

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• You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction

  "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Virtue, Virtuous

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1794). “Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes”

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• A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Men, Noses

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  e. e. cummings

  Witty, Art, Money

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• With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

  Lope de Vega

  Life, Flower, Book

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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Gentleman, Legs

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.252

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• Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Debtors, Creditors, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Needs, Debt

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Happiness, Spiritual

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

  Owen D. Young

  Wise, Two, Judging

  Owen D. Young, Gerard Swope (1930). “Selected Addresses of Owen D. Young, Chairman of Board of Directors, and Gerard Swope, President, General Electric Company”

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• For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Age, May

  Benjamin Franklin, Mason Locke Weems (1817). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin”, p.95

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• Frugality is a handsome income.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Income, Handsome

  Desiderius Erasmus (1733). “All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things”, p.475

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• A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Order, Principles, Scarcity

  "Lay Up in Store". Keith B. McMullin's priesthood session address at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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• Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Left Hand, Prosperity

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• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Men

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• I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Innovation, Way

  "Bezos On Innovation". Interview with Peter Burrows, www.bloomberg.com. April 17, 2008.

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• Frugality is misery in disguise.

  Publilius Syrus

  Misery, Disguise, Thrift

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