Favorite Frugal Quotes
A friend of Diogenes
visited him and found him eating a dinner of lentils.
The friend was a courtier in the court of the king.
He said to Diogenes, "If you would learn to flatter you
would not have to eat lentils." Diogenes replied, "And if
you
would learn to eat lentils you would not have to flatter."
-- Unknown
"Beware of
little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship"
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Without
frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be
poor."
-- Samuel Johnson
“I am for a
government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the
possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of
the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers
and salaries merely to make partisans, and for increasing,
by”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“A wise and
frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall
not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“No free
government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved
to any people but by a firm adherence to justice,
moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a
frequent recurrence to fundamental principles”
-- Patrick Henry
“Waste neither
time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without
industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them
everything.”
-- Benjamin Franklin
“Industry is
fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.”
-- John Ray
"It is thrifty
to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
--Aesop
"The best way
for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his
blessings and not his cash."
--Unknown
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
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