Wise Words: A Collection of Frugal Quotes

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship"-- Benjamin Franklin "He who does not economize will have to agonize"--Confusius "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely"--Rodin "Being frugal does not mean being cheap! It means being economical and avoiding waste." --Catherine Pulsifer "By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest." --Agesilaus "Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor." --Samuel Johnson "The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people." --E.B. White "I went to the bank and reviewed my savings, I found out I have all the money I'll ever need. If I die tomorrow." --Henry Youngman "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." --Albert Einstein "Rather to go to bed supperless than rise in debt." --Benjamin Franklin "Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." --Robert Louis Stevenson "Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future." --Ray Comfort "Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did." --James Baldwin "Less is more." --Mies van der Rohe "With greater emphasis on working to live, not living to work, we are creating awareness for simpler solutions, a more creative existence with healthier, happier longevity, for those brave enough to accept the challenge." --Tracey Smith "How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart." -Nikos Kazantzakis "Happiness is making the most of what you have." --Rosamunde Pilcher "It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow." --Aesop "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanted what you get." --Dale Carnegie "I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is 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. --Lao Tzu

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs." --Gloria Steinem "Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be." --Benjamin Franklin "The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." --Frank Hubbard "In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder." --Author Unknown "The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash." --Author Unknown "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." --John Wesley "The best way to save money is not to lose it." --Les Williams "Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back." --Earl Wilson "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." --Elizabeth Hardwick "Frugality without creativity is deprivation." --Amy Dacyczyn "If you have helath, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the walth you need, even if it is not all you want." --Elbert Hubbard "Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits." --Edmund Burke "I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source." --Andrew Johnson "Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality." --John Tyler "I am living so far behond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." --E.E. Cummings