Top 14 Quotes About Being Stingy: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Being Stingy

#1. The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

Thucydides

#3. When your heart is heavy and your spirit in distress,
Reach out your arms to Jesus, and sense his sweet caress.
He answers when we call him, our every prayer he hears,
Reach out your arms to Jesus, for he is always near.

Diane Goold

#4. It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

Pedro Almodovar

#5. Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Because they are living creatures and that means they have to work to stay alive. Staying alive always has a dark side.

Jayne Castle

#7. Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Virgil

#8. I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.

Doris Duke

#9. Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one.

Julie Burchill