Thrift Quotes

“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.”

“That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor. The bread he eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and thought; and in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest; this is capital doubled, quadrupled, centupled; man raised to his highest power. The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation and not in augmenting animal existence.”

“Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges.”

“Thrift is poetic because it is creative”

“The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.”

“The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.”

“The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.”

“We owe something to extravagance for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.”

“It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.”