79 Stingy Quotes
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Famous Stingy Quotes
I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation. — Ingvar Kamprad
The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper. — Yiddish Proverbs
Be thrifty, but not covetous. — George Herbert
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others. — Maimonides
Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now. — George Balanchine
Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up. — Janet Mock
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. — Josh Billings
Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive. — Ron Fletcher
I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. — Akira Toriyama
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty. — Publilius Syrus
A miser and a liar bargain quickly. — Proverbs
The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives. — George Eastman
He that does not save pennies, will never have pounds. — Danish Proverbs
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich. — Seneca
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. — Zeno of Elea
Short Stingy Quotes
- You can never have too much, butter. — Julie Powell
- You can never have too much money. — Jess C Scott
- You can never have too much sky. — Sandra Cisneros
- Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. — John Wanamaker
- A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother. — Norman Douglas
- Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity. — Elbert Hubbard
- I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent. — Stephen Dunn
- Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it. — John French Sloan
- Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth... — Vincent de Paul
Stingy Image Quotes
Being Stingy Quotes
We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is. — Gary Snyder
Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down & hope nothing hits you, Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say: "Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos." - must be female ;-) — Grey Owl
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life. — Ignatius of Loyola
I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know? — Jill Scott
Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess. — Gary Zukav
Be stingy with your money! Don't splurge at the mall - and definitely don't give it to your boyfriend! — Kimora Lee Simmons
I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost. — Doris Duke
Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful. — Muhammad
I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy. — Gloria Vanderbilt
People Writing About Stingy
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Ingvar Kamprad |
32 | 1606 |
 Yiddish Proverbs |
143 | 2723 |
 George Herbert |
1254 | 2130 |
 Maimonides |
118 | 2404 |
 George Balanchine |
37 | 1800 |
 Janet Mock |
22 | 484 |
More Stingy Quotes
In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda. — Jesse Eisenberg
Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young. — Fred Rogers
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free. — Paula Gunn Allen
Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards. — Sam Altman
Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder. — Reynolds Price
Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye. — Allan Sherman
My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. — Vincent Gallo
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites. — R. A. Lafferty
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. — Charles Baudelaire
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. — Saul Bellow
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls. — Robert Farrar Capon
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning) — Amy Tan
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better. — Anna Deavere Smith
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin. — John L. Parker Jr.
It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends. — Gottfried Leibniz
Helping others entails learning how you are helped. In order to heal others, you must learn to heal yourself. Learning how to give to yourself is part of learning how to give to others. If you are stingy with yourself, you will be stingy with others. When you understand how everything is given to you, you will be able to give everything to others. — Reb Anderson
America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian. — Maurice Saatchi
Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back. — Nora Roberts
It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being. — Pedro
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth. — William Least Heat-Moon
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