Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

If you're younger, you shouldn't be spending all your cash at a bar.

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.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

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.

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.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo.

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

I'm not afraid of retirement. Retirement sounds like a blast.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

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

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.