Thrift Quotes

• Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Art, Work, Character

  18 Copy quote

• It's smart to be thrifty.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Smart, Advertising, Thrifty

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Believe, Aquariums, Essentials

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• A penny saved is a penny earned.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: new annotated edition”, p.34, MarcoPolo

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• He lives well who lives retired, and keeps
  His wants within the limits of his means.

  Ovid

  Mean, Want, Limits

  17 Copy quote

• 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”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thrift is of great revenue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Revenue

  19 Copy quote

• Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Self, Wealth

  18 Copy quote

• The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

  Ogden Nash

  Money, Obvious, Lacking

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Preparation, Today

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frugality is misery in disguise.

  Publilius Syrus

  Misery, Disguise, Frugality

  8 Copy quote

• It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

  George Eliot

  Pockets, Use, Holes

  7 Copy quote

• By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

  Agesilaus II

  Simplicity, Liberty, Golden

  17 Copy quote

• You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Money, Libertarian, Income

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, People, Income

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1997). “De oratore: Book III ; De fato ; Paradoxa stoicorum ; De partitione oratoria”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Class, Needs

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Parent, Liberty

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.19

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

  Winston Churchill

  Trying, Rewards, Gains

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Book, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Libertarian, Helping

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

  William Shakespeare

  Funeral, Meat, Denmark In Hamlet

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Doe, Waste

  Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches”, Elt Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
  And not by any sordid shift;
  'T is haste
  Makes waste;
  Extremes have still their fault.
  Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
  Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

  Robert Herrick

  Hands, Haste Makes Waste, Dry

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strength, Strong, Don't Give Up

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Money, Memories

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 08, 2012

  8 Copy quote

  Show source