A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
I'm all about saving money.
I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
A penny saved is two pence clear.
You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.
I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
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.
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.
If you want to do well in life financially, then you have to start with dollars and cents. Those are details. So every penny means something. People who are successful tend to take care of those little things very well. And then they also accumulate credit, resources and do whatever it is that you need in life - that's a preparation for success.
A penny saved is a penny to squander.
I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through.
And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
Spare no expense to save money on this one.
I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.
I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.
My philosophy is to save, spend minimally, and buy things as much as you can on sale, never pay full price, and just don't spend a lot of money at the end of the day.
