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“Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.”

Mean Self Waste Begets Meanness Thrift Self Will

Book:THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

“Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.”

Littles Stills Hard Hands Wealth Waste Faults Extremes Dry Sand Haste Thrift Haste Makes Waste

Book:Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

“Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.”

Should Kind Economy Virtue Waste Income All Kinds Household Meanness Degenerates Thrift Repressed Frugality

Author:Isabella Beeton

“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.”

Ifs Men Use Would Be Economy Creative Genius Waste Poetic Thrift Extravagance Dustbin Really Romantic

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Use Waste Available Ingredients Thrift

Book:The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures

Source: The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures

“Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.”

Men Doe Fool Waste Thrift Muddle

Book:Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches

Source: Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches

“There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.”

Made Use Waste Available Substitutes Ingredients Inferiors Flavor Thrift Good Food

Book:The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures

Source: The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures

“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.”

Economy Creative Waste Poetic Thrift Dustbin

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.”

Needs War Care Nature Economy Environment Products Waste Environmental Simplicity Violent Saving Inevitable Excess Thrift Conserving

Book:In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.”

Men Mind Mean Self Form Values Fool Waste Crisis Mere Proof Saving Restraint Savings Saving Money Thrift Extravagance Self Restraint Muddle

Author:Rudyard Kipling