"Frugality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... highest themes which can elevate or engross the mind of man claimed her profound and delighted reveries. The next hour she might be seen in the kitchen, under the guidance of her placid and pious mother, receiving from her judicious lips lessons upon frugality, and industry, and economy. The white apron was bound around her waist, and her hands, which, but a few moments before, were busy with the circles of the celestial globe, were now occupied in preparing vegetables for dinner. There was thus united in the character ...
— Madame Roland, Makers of History • John S. C. Abbott
... the result, which you may avoid. But either a fond partiality for the task I have undertaken deceives me, or there never was any state either greater, or more moral, or richer in good examples, nor one into which luxury and avarice made their entrance so late, and where poverty and frugality were so much and so long honoured; so that the less wealth there was, the less desire was there. Of late, riches have introduced avarice, and excessive pleasures a longing for them, amidst luxury and a passion ...
— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius
... then dispersed, and our hero received a purse of gold for his picture, exceeding in amount his wildest expectations of what he might earn by his art in years of industry and frugality. ...
— The Duke's Prize - A Story of Art and Heart in Florence • Maturin Murray
... he said of the habits of industry, of study, of frugality, yea, of all the moral and religious acts of the Christian. It is easy to form such habits in children. Evil habits are more easily established, because we are naturally inclined to all evil; and when once formed, no parental interposition can break ...
— The Christian Home • Samuel Philips
... does not exist, each participant in the community of goods will, as a rule, seek to do the least and enjoy the most possible.(485) In a society of one hundred thousand members, each individual would be interested in the results of its aggregate frugality only indirectly, and only to the extent of a one-hundred thousandth part of the whole; that is, practically, not at all.(486) Individual selfishness would expend itself entirely on the division of what the whole community produced. ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher
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