Spending Wisely Quotes

Life is short and so is money.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'

The less you have to think about how to spend every dollar, the more likely you are to spend wisely.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Think before you act: it's not your money.

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.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

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.

Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42)

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

I do have limits on my money. I like calling my mom to ask, "Can I have that?" Because I know I can be spending my money more wisely.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.

You don't win championships by having the cheapest budget.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.