Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Inexpensive is good.

When things cost so much, you appreciate it much more.

You don't have to make things which are just expensive.

I know it's different today than when I was growing up, and that's fine. But I have never been somebody, even when I was earning $19,000 a year, I never ran around whining and moaning about what things cost. What they cost was what they cost. And if I couldn't afford it, then I had to find a way to afford it or forget about it for now. It's just the way it was.

There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

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

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

If we want to be cost-conscious, we should do it, not just talk about how cost-conscious we are.

I used to scrimp with Judy in one-room apartments.

I'm quite careful. I like to buy nice things for myself, but I like to also be reasonable. I think I'm pretty careful.

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

I'm not cheap but I'm not unaffordable.

Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.

I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.