“Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”
“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.”
“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.”
“My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop.”
“The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.”
“The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.”