Waste is worse than loss. The
time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep
the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is
limitless. Thomas A. Edison
We must beware of trying to build
a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or
an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no
privileges. W inston Churchill
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered
living. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
I never use any man's money but my own.
Abraham Lincoln
A penny saved is two pence clear. Benjamin
Franklin
A pin a day's a groat a year. Benjamin
Franklin
Get what you can and what you get hold.
Benjamin Franklin
Tis the stone that will turn all your lead
into gold. Benjamin Franklin
There is no use filling your pocket with money
if you have a hole in the corner. George Eliott
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an
egg today. Thomas fuller
A man who spends and saves money is the happiest
man, because he has both enjoyments. Samuel Johnson
Draw your salary before spending it.
George Ade
I had is a heartache, I have is a fountain.
You're worth what you saved not the million
you made.
Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but
an affair of character. ~S.W. Straus
Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.
Seneca
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous;
and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. Lord
Rosebery
Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is
today. Francis H. Sisson
The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice.
M.W. Harrison
Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly
afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental
health, to your growth in efficiency and power. Orison Swett Marden
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. Agesilaus
Man's ordinary expenses ought to be but half
of his receipts, and if he think to wax rich, but to the third part.
Francis Bacon, 1561-1620
He will always be a slave, who does not know
how to live upon a little. Horace, 65-8 b.c.
Resolve not to be poor; whatever you have,
spend less. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending
of one's means. It is not a virtue, and it requires neither skill nor
alent. Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
Be thrifty, but not covetous. George
Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Prudent men woo thrifty women. German Proverb Sayings of German
Origin
Thrift is of great revenue. Marcus T. Cicero 106-43 BC, Great
Roman Orator, Politician
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that
I am lacking in thrift. Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous
Poet
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase
of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. Thomas
Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Never ask of money spent
where the spender thinks it went
nobody was ever meant
to remember or invent
what he did with eveery cent
Robert Frost, The Hardship of Accounting
Never spend money before you have it. The rule
which I wish to see you governed by through your whole life, of never
buying anything which you have not the money in your pocket to pay for.
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than
to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to his daughter Martha 14 june 1787 Martha
had sought money to buy some dresses, she received it from Jefferson
with this admonition.
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