Time to get frugal! - Frugal Quotes - Thrifty Quotes

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

Paul Clitheroe

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Earl Wilson

Frugality the teacher is of wise and nobel counsel.

Anon

No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.

Gustavits F. Swift

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received. 

Walter Benjamin

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

Horace

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call involuntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

We are slaves of our needs; the fewer they are; they freer we are; the higher they are, the nobler the masters we serve.

John L. Spalding

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, who is poor.

Seneca the Younger

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epicurus

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough.

William Shakespeare

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Socrates

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.

Richard Steele

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Content thyself to live obscurely good.

Joseph Addison

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

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

Samuel Johnson

 

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Frank Hubbard

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

Ray Comfort

Less is more.

Mies van der Rohe

With greater emphasis on working to live, not living to work, we are creating awareness for simpler solutions, a more creative existence with healthier, happier longevity, for those brave enough to accept the challenge.

Tracey Smith

 

Getting money is like digging with a needle; spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Japanese Proverb

 

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

 

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Andrew Carnegie

 

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Gloria Steinem

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is 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.

Lao Tzu

Happiness is making the most of what you have.

Rosamunde Pilcher

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

Aesop

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Heny D. Thoreau

 

Deprive yourself on nothing necessary for your comfort, but live in an honorable simplicity and frugality.

John McDonough

 

Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

Sophocles

 

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

 

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Charles Caleb Colton

 

 

He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

Epicurus

 

 

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Benjamin Franklin

 

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

 

 

Thrift is the best means of thriving.

Charles J. Hare

 

 

The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn. People earning a million dollars a year can have no money and people earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It's not what you earn, it's what you spend.

Paul Clitheroe

 

 

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it. It’s cheaper in the long run.

Felix Dennis

 

 

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Milton Friedman

 

 

I don’t go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

T. Boone Pickens

 

 

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Les Williams

 

 

Being frugal does not mean being cheap!

It means being economical and avoiding waste.

Catherine Pulsifer

 

 

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Agesilaus

 

 

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

Lope de Vega

 

Simplicity, a thing most rare in our age.

Ovid

 

 

Economy is a savings bank into which men drop pennies and get dollars in return.

Josh Billings