Top 198 Thrift Quotes & Sayings

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

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

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

I always go thrift shopping wherever I am.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

It took thrift and savings, together with tremendous character and vision, to make our nation what it is today. And it will take thrift and savings, together with constant ingenuity and stamina, to conserve our remaining resources to enable us to continue to be a great nation.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

I don't really shop unless it's thrift.

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

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

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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.

I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all.

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.

Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

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

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual's own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, or his family a higher standard of living in the event of his death, than would otherwise be the case. Hence the system both encourages thrift and self-reliance, and helps to prevent destitution in our national life.

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.

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

If I dig something, I'll throw it on. I like random stuff you can get at thrift shops.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

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

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

I like to thrift. I think it's the funnest thing ever. But it's a sport: You have to wake up, eat, and then it's a whole day.

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

Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't have any money.

I'm on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I'll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

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

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

Thrift is a great revenue.

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

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

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

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

Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.

My personal closet has mostly vintage and thrift store finds because I like to recycle in many ways.

I've always been a thrift store kid.

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.