Top 39 Quotes About Thrifty
#1. Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'
George Carlin
#2. Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.
Janette Rallison
#3. You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.
Elizabeth George
#4. To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
Ellen Glasgow
#5. In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.
Julia Ward Howe
#6. Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.
Sophocles
#8. The Girl Scout's motto is also mine. I fill my life with worthwhile deeds such as - well, never mind what. My duty is - to be useful. I am a friend to male animals. I am cheerful. I am thrifty and I am absolutely filthy in thought, word, and deed.
Vladimir Nabokov
#9. The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
#10. In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.
Mary Baker Eddy
#11. Paine and Joel Barlow attempted to change Jefferson's mind, urging him to settle thrifty German immigrants in the new lands and to permit black families to travel from other states to acquire their own land there, but the sugar interest triumphed,
Christopher Hitchens
#12. It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.
Aesop
#13. Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#15. The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
Benjamin Franklin
#16. Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.
John Templeton
#17. Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.
Zelda Popkin
#19. What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.
Julia Child
#20. Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
Aristotle.
#21. It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Aesop
#22. The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
#23. None of it lay fallow and neglected, none of it under another's control; for being an extremely thrifty guardian of his time he never found anything for which it was worth exchanging. So he had enough time; but those into whose lives the public have made great inroads inevitably have too little.
Seneca.
#24. Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The
Philip K. Dick
#25. I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.
Ashley Jensen
#26. Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.
Ted Malloch
#27. THE AFRO-AMERICAN HAS BEEN HEIR TO THE MYTHS THAT IT IS BETTER TO BE POOR THAN RICH, LOWER-CLASS RATHER THAN MIDDLE OR UPPER, EASYGOING RATHER THAN INDUSTRIOUS, EXTRAVAGANT RATHER THAN THRIFTY AND ATHLETIC RATHER THAN ACADEMIC.
John Connolly
#28. He had been born thrifty which was fortunate, for he was too earnest and humble ever to win earthly riches.
Margaret Yorke
#29. There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it.
Peter Hook
#30. TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
#31. TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
Ambrose Bierce
#32. A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.
Roger Wang
#34. One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#36. Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
Archibald Primrose
#37. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar Wilde
#38. If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
William Shakespeare
