Thrift Quotes

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

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

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.

People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

I'm not a vintage/thrift shop girl. I don't have the patience.

I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.

Thrift is a great revenue.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban vinyl collection from Miami thrift stores.

I started dressing and people used to ask, "Where do you get all that stuff?" I was going to thrift stores with my best friend Bianca Stewart.

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

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

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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