Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I was brought up to reuse things.

Nothing is wasted.

My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

When we think about the trends that millennials are taking toward simplicity, I think it's indicative of a cultural shift toward less of the 'more is more' for materialism sake and more of an emphasis on efficiency, value, and sustainability.

What I learned being a young child was respect for food. Don't throw anything away.

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

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.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

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

I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.