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Parsimony Quotes

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Livy
Poverty, Parsimony, Ashamed
"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 4,

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Benjamin Disraeli
Parsimony, Brevity, Prodigals
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1860). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.360

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Theodor Adorno
Moral, Consideration, Parsimony
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.41, Verso

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