Frugality Quotes

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

The misers cheese is wholesomest

He that is rich need not live sparingly,and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.

With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

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

In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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

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.

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

he who will not economize will agonize

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

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

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.

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.

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

A penny saved is two pence clear.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

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

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful