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  • Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  • A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

    Work   Gentleman   Legs  
    Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.252
  • If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.

    Change   Strong   War  
    Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.314, Vintage
  • The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying.

    Men   Luxury   People  
    David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.387
  • The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

    Poverty   Kind   Shame  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXXIV. 4, (p. 702), 1922.
  • 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.

  • Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

  • Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

    Life   Business   Simple  
    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

  • I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

    Men   Fellow Man   Frugal  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books
  • I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

    Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)
  • I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

    Grover Cleveland (1892). “The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland”
  • You can never get enough of what you don't want.

    Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

    Justice   Doe   Faults  
    Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company
  • The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

    Order   Long   Riches  
  • If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

  • I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

    Witty   Money   Men  
  • With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

    Life   Flower   Book  
  • Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

  • Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

    Life   Virtue   Frugality  
    Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.58, UPNE
  • Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

    Forever   Cost   Lasts  
    Nicholas Sparks (2013). “The Wedding”, p.32, Hachette UK
  • Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

    Greed   Promise   Fuel  
  • [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

    Eye   Government   Giving  
    Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221
  • The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

    Mean   Taught   Losing  
  • Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

    Mother   Doe   World  
  • I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

    Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)
  • Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

  • Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

    Benjamin Franklin (1834). “The Life & Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.160
  • The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

    Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Franklin's Way to Wealth; or “Poor Richard improved,&c.” A new edition ... enlarged by Bob Short and adorned with copper-plates”, p.13
  • Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t love.

    Cutting   Cost   Enough  
    Ramit Sethi (2009). “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”, p.97, Workman Publishing
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