Parsimony Quotes

Parsimony Quote of the day

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.