Top 25 Quotes About Parsimony
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke
#4. 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
#5. What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#6. There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Livy
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
Rudolf Arnheim
#12. The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When
Adam Smith
#13. With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
Seneca The Younger
#14. We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.
Shirley Temple
#15. It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.
Mary Antin
#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. There is no transformation of life without the renewing of the mind.
Sunday Adelaja
#19. Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
David Levithan
#20. All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
Gil Kane
#21. The slow turtle wins the race!" at it pertains to writing and editing well.
Dennis De Rose
#22. A novel is a book with a lot of pages.
Kathy Acker
#24. There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.
Nikki Sixx
#25. You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
Michael Caine
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