Quotes about Frugality

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

Under the Constitution, our government follows the model set out by Thomas Jefferson: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.