Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

We are going to put "thrift" back in the dictionary.

I'm pretty low-maintenance.

The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.

I'm not a girl who's into home comforts and luxury.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here." "Yeah, but what if he's naked or something?" Ash led him into the foyer. "I've known Kyrian for over two thousand years, and I can honesty say that I have never once caught him naked in his living room." The door closed behind them without Ash or Nick touching it- something that always unnerved Nick when Ash did it. "Besides, Rosa's still here. I know he's not walking around bare-assed with her on duty.

..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.