Samuel Johnson Quotes

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

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

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

The United States has consumed in the last 50 years more natural resources than the rest of the entire human race for all of history.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

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.

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

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.

Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.