Quotes About Parsimony

#1. The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When

Adam Smith

#2. If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Theodor Adorno

#3. A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

Michael Caine

#5. There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

Nikki Sixx

#6. Men have more to lose than their chains .

Heidi Hartmann

#7. A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

Kathy Acker

#8. The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

Rudolf Arnheim

#9. The slow turtle wins the race!" at it pertains to writing and editing well.

Dennis De Rose

#10. All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

Gil Kane

#11. Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

Adam Smith

#12. Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#13. With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Seneca The Younger

#14. The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Philip K. Dick

#15. Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

David Levithan

#16. There is no transformation of life without the renewing of the mind.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. A book, a good chair, my pipe, and a good bed to go to when night falls, and I'm as happy as one can be in this very trying world.

Warren Lewis

#18. On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

Thomas William Parsons

#19. There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Livy

#20. It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Mary Antin

#21. What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#22. Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

China Mieville

#23. Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Edmund Burke

#24. We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

Shirley Temple

#25. Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

Charles Lapworth