Quotations
About Frugality and Simplicity
Our
life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity,
simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and
not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half
dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ~ Heny
D. Thoreau
Deprive
yourself on nothing necessary for your comfort, but live in
an honorable simplicity and frugality. ~ John
McDonough
Train
your son and daughter to an employment, to frugality, to hold
the high front and to walk the fearless step of independence.
~ Timothy Flint
Be
a thrifty steward of thy goods.
~ Sophocles
To
live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than
luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy,
not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars
and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard;
to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions,
hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and
unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
~ William Henry Channing
In
this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up,
that makes us rich. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
We
are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think
we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants;
if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you;
for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what
he cannot buy. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
With
a few flowers in my garden, half dozen pictures and some books,
I live without envy.
~ Lope de Vega
Simplicity,
a thing most rare in our age. - Ovid,
Roman poet
Much
is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
~ Horace
None
can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from
the vantage ground of what we should call involuntary poverty.
~
Henry David Thoreau
We
are slaves of our needs; the fewer they are; they freer we
are; the higher they are, the nobler the masters we serve.
~
John L. Spalding
He
is richest who is content with the least; for content is the
wealth of nature. ~ Socrates
The desires of
man increase with his acquisitions. ~ Dr.
Samuel Johnson
It
is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more,
who is poor. ~
Seneca the Younger
To be content with
little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible ~
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
Wealth consists
not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
~ Epicurus
The
wisdom of life consists in th elimination of nonessentials.
~ Lin Yutang
He is richest who
is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.
~ Socrates
Poor and content,
is rich and rich enough;
But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter,
To him that ever fears he shall be poor. ~ William
Shakespeare
My
belief is that to have no wants is divine.
~ Socrates
We should employ
our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the
service of our passions. ~ Richard Steele
Can
anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve
them one's self?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Content thyself
to live obscurely good. ~ Joseph Addison
He
who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
~ Epicurus
If you know how
to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To be without some
of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
Thrift is the best
means of thriving. ~ Charles J. Hare
Economy is a savings
bank into which men drop pennies and get dollars in return.
~ Josh Billings
Frugality
the teacher is
Of wise and nobel counsel.
~ Anon.
No man is rich
enough to waste his money in putting on style. ~ Gustavits
F. Swift
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With
a few flowers in my garden, half dozen pictures and some
books, I live without envy.
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