I
may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into
being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.
Adriano
Tilgher
Once
again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us
observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Unknown
Every
intelligent boy of sixteen is a Socialist. At that age one does not see
the hook sticking out of the rather stodgy bait.
George Orwell
We
realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have
everything else.
Robert Brault
He
who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
Author Unknown
To
perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every
year.
Elwyn Brooks White
The
secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Francis H. Bradley
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
Paul Eldridge
Forethought
and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the
economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are
gravely compromised.
Adriano Tilgher
Do
not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends....
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
Be
glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you
weren't.
Mignon McLaughlin
You
have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really
need.
Vernon
Howard
Oh,
for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran
out of money.
Author Unknown
Earth
provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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