Thrift Quotes

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison

Time, Person, Him

Thrift is of great revenue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cannot, Realize, Large

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Trust, Patience, Teacher

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge

Character, Wealth, Create

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

Living, Essential

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
Rick Perry

Life, Faith, Work

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
William Feather

Energy, Reward, Taxes

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
Paul Getty

Cannot, Bring, Prosperity

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
William J. H. Boetcker

Cannot, Bring, Prosperity

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
Macklemore

Times, Week, Five

I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.
ASAP Rocky

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

Virtue, Era, Brought

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.
Ezra Miller

Best, Amazing, Living

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.
Ezra Miller

Family, Place, Star

Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
Macklemore

Yourself, Together, Same

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
Zoe Lister-Jones

Almost, Early, Shopping

I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.
Monica Potter

Home, Friends, Old

I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
Victoria Legrand

Beauty, Find, Fashion

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Jennie Churchill

Adventure, Hand, Seldom

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