John Fletcher Quotes

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

I am most certainly not rich. But I am a man who is intrinsically lazy. And I'm more than happy to put a piece of cheese on a rice cake and call that dinner.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

I live a pretty simple life.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

My material life is simple.

I live a very simple life.

I have a few toys. But I live very simply.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.