Edmund Burke Quotes

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

Frugality is a great revenue.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

I'm careful with money.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

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

It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

I don't like spending money.

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

I'm very budget-minded myself, and it serves me well.

There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.