Quotes about Frugality
I think that I know the value of a dollar.
- Dolly Parton
I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
- Kerry Washington
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
- Calvin Coolidge
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.
- Calvin Coolidge
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
- Edmund Burke
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
- Confucius
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.
- Calvin Coolidge
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
- Charles Spurgeon
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
- Livy
Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.
- Seneca
His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.
- Max Lucado