Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

Dita Von Teese

Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.

Sam Altman

That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.

Daniel Sullivan

We're already not looked at as being the most frugal people.

Horace

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Brian Reilly

I'm not real frugal or thrifty, ... I just don't waste money on little things that don't matter, but spend on big things that do.

Deborah Voso

You have to be frugal and if you're not a saver now, it's going to be very difficult.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Alan Ayckbourn

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Sean Quinn

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

Maria Semple

This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.

Mark Mulder

This isn't how the story was supposed to end,

Mike Fratello

That's what you're supposed to do. Win games.

Larry Brown

That's fun. That's the way we're supposed to play.

Richard Barrett

You're supposed to get out of a wheelchair. They want you to get up and get around.

Calandra Terry

You're not supposed to put anything extraneous in the invitations, not even a footnote, but you can put whatever you want to in your newsletter. You can make it informative, but fun, like your wedding.

Jason Gedrick

You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!

John Bennett

You only come to those conclusions if you don't understand how the whole thing is supposed to work.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Charlize Theron

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Charles Lamb

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Bill Maher

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

Bill Gates

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Aileen Wuornos

Thanks a lot, society, for railroading my ass.

Kevin Lowe

Thanks to Mark, ... the Islanders couldn't touch us after that.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.