“ The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. ”
- Owen D. Young- Copy
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“ Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. ”
- Lord Rosebery- Copy
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“ Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ 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 S. Marden- Copy
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“ The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
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“ It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
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“ Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
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“ Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 132
“ We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. ”
- Jennie Jerome Churchill- Copy
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“ If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 3.2K
“ We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. ”
- Owen D. Young- Copy
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