Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

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.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

My material life is simple.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.

I don't need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

I'm happy without money.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

Me, I don't need money.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.