Thrifty Quotes

• 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
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Insulting

• 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
  • Men
  • Die
  • Forever

• It's smart to be thrifty.

  

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  • Smart
  • Thrifty

• A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Coward
  • Cautious
  • Misers

• If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Virtue
  • Thrifty