Quotes about Frugality

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

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

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

Many despise economy, confounding it with stinginess and narrowness. But economy is consistent with the broadest liberality. Indeed, without economy, there can be no true liberality. We are to save, that we may give.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can.

One of the greatest of liberals, Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, once remarked: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned—this is the sum of good government.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.