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Frugal Quotes

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.18, Harvard University Press

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.18

Frugality is a handsome income.

Desiderius Erasmus (1733). “All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things”, p.475

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.20

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Benjamin Franklin (1834). “The Life & Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.160

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1815*). “The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin”, p.210

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.58, UPNE

I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.

"There's more to life than hitting a ball" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.

1668 Of Ben Jonson. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.47

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.39, Open Road Media