Thrift Quotes
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Virginibus Puerisque Ch. 5
George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.8
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
John Maynard Keynes (1930). “A treatise on money”
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.36
Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.301, Vintage
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.86, Palgrave Macmillan
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.210, e-artnow