Top Thrift Quotes

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into t...

Thrift Definition

(n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.

(n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.

(n.) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

(n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

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

Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.

The doctor's wife was not particularly keen on the tendency of proverbs to preach, nevertheless something of this ancient lore must have remained in her memory, the proof being that she filled two of...

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

Why they were loaded with bags of beans and peas and anything else they happened to pick up when they were still some distance away from the street where the first blind man and his wife lived, for th...