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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
quote by George Herbert
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It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Aesop in The Ant and the Grasshopper
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The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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Look for a thrifty woman -- even though it may cost you a pair of shoes.
Tristan (an acrostic)
TRISTAN
he is…
Terrific
Reliable
Imaginative
Sensitive
Thrifty
Authentic
Neighborly
and so much more!
poem by Loyd C. Taylor
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He that borrows and bigs, maks feasts and thigs, drinks an's no dry, nane a' these three are thrifty.
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.
quote by Horace Binney
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When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they're not there to learn about that. They're there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty.
quote by Rick Perry
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A Woman With Double Loss
During menstruation period
due to hormonal influence,
some women become depressed and different.
Usually she is stingy and thrifty.
She would buy useless things with big money.
It is discovered in a scientific study.
From uterus, she loses blood.
From her purse, she loses buck.
During menstruation, she becomes a crazy shopping nut.
Novum Organum
In Bacon see the culminating prime
Of Anglo-Saxon intellect and crime.
He dies and Nature, settling his affairs,
Parts his endowments among us, his heirs:
To every one a pinch of brain for seed,
And, to develop it, a pinch of greed.
Each thrifty heir, to make the gift suffice,
Buries the talent to manure the vice.
poem by Ambrose Bierce
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Twin Unworthies
Ye parasites that to the rich men stick,
As to the fattest sheep the thrifty tick
Ed'ard to Stanford and to Crocker Ben
(To Ben and Ed'ard many meaner men,
And lice to these)-who do the kind of work
That thieves would have the honesty to shirk
Whose wages are that your employers own
The fat that reeks upon your every bone
And deigns to ask (the flattery how sweet!)
About its health and how it stands the heat,
Hail and farewell! I meant to write about you,
But, no, my page is cleaner far without you.
poem by Ambrose Bierce
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It's easy to invent a Life
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It's easy to invent a Life—
God does it—every Day—
Creation—but the Gambol
Of His Authority—
It's easy to efface it—
The thrifty Deity
Could scarce afford Eternity
To Spontaneity—
The Perished Patterns murmur—
But His Perturbless Plan
Proceed—inserting Here—a Sun—
There—leaving out a Man—
poem by Emily Dickinson
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A Holiday
Along the pastoral ways I go,
To get the healing of the trees,
The ghostly news the hedges know;
To hive me honey like the bees,
Against the time of snow.
The common hawthorn that I see,
Beside the sunken wall astir,
Or any other blossoming tree,
Is each God’s fair white gospeller,
His book upon the knee.
A gust-broken bough; a pilfered nest;
Rumors of orchard or of bin;
The thrifty things of east and west,—
The countryside becomes my Inn,
And I its happy guest.
poem by Lizette Woodworth Reese
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To Look At You
What is the name to call
For a different kind of girl
Who knows the feelings
But never the words
To look at you
And never speak
Is so good
For me tonight
Who do you ask when theres no one left to turn to
You ask me and Ill always try to hear
Past money and colours and make believe
Good cheap values for a thrifty clown
What do you fear in the simple still of a summers night
I understand I sympathize for a daydream
Fairytales and I love you
What is the name to call
For a different kind of girl
Who knows the feelings
And never the words
To this
Real life documentary
song performed by by INXS
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I feel like something
I feel like something, what shall I buy?
I really very hungry, if I don't eat I will cry,
What about a toasted sandwich with ham,
Or just buy bread, and get a tin of spam.
I feel like something nice to eat,
Such as a bowl of strawberries as a sweet;
Then what about putting a banana in too,
No, I'll buy some fruit, and eat around two.
I'm feeling like a lovely cool drink to get,
But the price to pay makes one upset;
So go home and make a drink of hot tea,
Herbal tea is even better, that'll help me.
I'm longing to buy a box of chockies, to enjoy,
But when I see my waist, my size it'll annoy;
I don't want to put on weight, so I'll go without,
Wait till I see a friend, and a gift I'll shout.
If you ever go shopping, eat before you go,
You won't buy food you dont need, you'll say no;
Too you'll keep energetic, and healthy as well,
People know you're careful, and thrifty, they can tell.
poem by Margaret Haig
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Winter Song
OH, who would be sad tho' the sky be a-graying,
And meadow and woodlands are empty and bare;
For softly and merrily now there come playing,
The little white birds thro' the winter-kissed air.
The squirrel's enjoying the rest of the thrifty,
He munches his store in the old hollow tree;
Tho' cold is the blast and the snow-flakes are drifty
He fears the white flock not a whit more than we.
Chorus:
Then heigho for the flying snow!
Over the whitened roads we go,
With pulses that tingle,
And sleigh-bells a-jingle
For winter's white birds here's a cheery heigho!
poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Children
Raising two children, once when reflected
Found myself a changed person, never had suspected
Motherhood transformed me into a new soul
Used to be a Queen, now Guard on patrol
World has changed to a 360 for me
With action more calculated and thrifty you see
Stamina for daily pressures is much high
Got the flair to answer their (children) each n every WHY
High thresholds gave a miraculous productivity
Organizing and taming pressures increased sustainability
Nurturing children develops many skills actually
I'm an idea hamster now, quoting personally
At night view them sleeping, brings a smile to my face
I survived another day, won another race ;)
poem by Samima Shah
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