Frugal quotes
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
"Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free."
"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
"Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy."
"I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men."
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"I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it."