Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Quotes

I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

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

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

I live way below my means.

Thrift is of great revenue.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

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 shop as much as I find.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

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

Frugality is a great revenue.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

I saved my money.

I have not thrown my money away on unnecessary things in my life, so I'm okay.

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

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.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch