Quotes of Frugal - somelinesforyou

“ The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Physics is experience arranged in economical order. ”

- Ernst Mach

“ Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is, when I go, they go, too. ”

- Jack Benny

“ In economics the majority is always wrong. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. ”

- Will Rogers

“ If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base. ”

- Dave Barry

“ If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ”

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Now we have a sort of economical drying of intellectuals. ”

- Vaclav Havel

“ All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave. ”

- William Henry Ireland

“ We need to do a much better job of educating our children about their career choices. ”

- Joe Manchin

“ A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue. ”

- John Rawls

“ Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance. ”

- Lorne Sanny

“ Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor;Part with it as with money, sparing; payNo moment but in purchase of its worth,And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. ”

- Edward Young

“ The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ I got politics and economics moving and then others took over. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. — Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ”

- Irving Fisher

“ Business is a means - the only means - to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. ”

- Ludwig von Mises

“ Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye. ”

- Unknown

“ I don't think its racism, I think its economic. ”

- Colin Powell

“ The need is there, obviously,... Baby Boomers are facing retirement in 15 years. We have to encourage savings. ”

- Robert Reich

“ You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ”

- Unknown

“ That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. ”

- William Cowper

“ Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. ”

- Louise Bogan
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