Economy is a great revenue. [ Cicero ]
Economy, the poor man's mint. [ Tupper ]
The back door robs the house. [ George Herbert ]
To balance fortune by a just expense.
Join with Economy, Magnificence. [ Pope ]
To make three guineas do the work of five. [ Burns ]
Every fancy you consult, consult your purse. [ Franklin ]
Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire. [ J. T. Fields ]
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. [ Emerson ]
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality. [ Rochefoucauld ]
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. [ Beaconsfield ]
Avarice is only prudence and economy pushed to excess. [ Cbattield ]
Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation. [ Madam Swetchine ]
It would be well had we more misers than we have among us. [ Goldsmith ]
Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. [ Zimmermann ]
Without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor. [ Johnson ]
A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. [ Franklin ]
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. [ Franklin ]
Not to be covetous is money, not to be a purchaser is a revenue. [ Cicero ]
Frugality is founded upon the principle, that all riches have limits. [ Burke ]
May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune. [ Shenstone ]
If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's stone. [ Franklin ]
There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have. [ Publius Syrus ]
No man ever became, or can become, largely rich merely by labour and economy. [ John Ruskin ]
Economy is a savings bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. [ Rev. C. H. Spurgeon ]
The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize. [ Confucius ]
Men live best upon small means. Nature has provided for all, if they only knew how to use her gifts. [ Claudianus ]
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. [ Joubert ]
No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. [ Haliburton ]
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it. [ Emerson ]
There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. [ Carlyle ]
The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living, in a little, much beneath them. [ Addison ]
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. [ Charles Buxton ]
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. [ William Shakespeare ]
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]
Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. [ Wayland ]
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations.
It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]
Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]