best quotations about
Frugality |
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Quotations
Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 52 likes | |
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 22 likes | |
Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 17 likes | |
He has the most who is most content with the least. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 10 likes | |
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 7 likes | |
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 6 likes | |
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 5 likes | |
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 4 likes | |
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 4 likes | |
A large heart can be filled with very little. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes | |
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 likes | |
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes | |
Half a Loaf is better than no Bread. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 2 likes | |
I wanted the minimum and they punished me with the maximum. | |
The most beautiful works are those where there is the least material. | |
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board. | |
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. | |
A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it. | |
Frugality is for the vulgar. |
Ancient Greek
Happiness in life depends on very few things. Εν ολιγίστοις κείται το ευδαιμόνως βιώσαι. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations VII, 67 6 likes | |
He is a sensible man who does not grieve for what he has not, but enjoys what he has. Ευγνώμων ο μη λυπεόμενος εφ’ οίσιν ουκ έχει, αλλά χαίρων εφ’ οίσιν έχει. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes | |
If you do not want many things, the few will seem many. Ην μη πολλών επιθυμέης τα ολίγα τοι πολλά δόξει. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes | |
Hope as a mortal, be frugal as an immortal. Έλπιζε ως θνητός, φείδου ως αθάνατος. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 3 likes |