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Cut my cote after my cloth. - Unattributed Author, Godly Queene Hester--Interlude, an expression said to be a relic of the Sumptuary Laws The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says: The man who lives by hope will die by despair." - Joseph Addison Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. - Christian Nestell Bovee Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. - Edmund Burke To make three guineas do the work of five. - Robert Burns The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. - Charles Buxton Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing. [Lat., Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.] - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor), Epistles (94), as quoted by Seneca Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Paradoxa (VI, 3, 49) The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize. - Confucius There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend. - Owen Felltham (Feltham) Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire. - James Thomas Fields A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat at last. - Benjamin Franklin Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. - Benjamin Franklin Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live expense is constant and certain; and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. - Benjamin Franklin If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's stone. - Benjamin Franklin A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. - Benjamin Franklin, Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths. - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society. - Oliver Goldsmith It world be well had we more misers than we have among us. - Oliver Goldsmith No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) It is no small commendation to manage a little well. He is a good waggoner that can turn in a little room. To live well in abundance is the praise to the estate, is the praise not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more. - Joseph Hall Economy is integrity and profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debts; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls. - John Hawkesworth Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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