Quotes on Thrifty

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.