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“The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“If you feel that you are a miserly stingy parsimonious guy,
at least let not that impression formed in the minds of others.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Pelit itu payah! Hemat itu jenius!”
― Yoshichi Shimada

“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He’s sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an apple
with a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.”
― L.H. Cosway, Tegan's Blood

“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi hupata jeuri ya kusema hivyo kutokana na umaskini wa watu wanaowazunguka.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Watu hubariki wenzao ambao ni wakarimu, na hulaani wenzao ambao ni wabahili. Ukiwa mkarimu kwa watu umekopa neema kutoka kwa Mungu, na Mungu atakulipa kutokana na matendo yako.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Are most people so stingy and selfish? I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.”
― Enock Maregesi

“No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. In their eyes the merit of an object which is in any degree either useful or beautiful is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it, a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves.

Book I, Chapter 11 - Rent of Land, part II”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“The idea of spending money, of buying myself something lovely but unnecessary, has always burdened me. Is it because my father would scrupulously count out his coins, and rub his fingers over every bill before giving me one in case there was another stuck to it? Who hated eating out, who wouldn't order even a cup of tea in a coffee bar because a box of tea bags in the supermarket cost the same? Was it my parents' strict tutelage that prompts me to always choose the least-expensive dress, greeting card, dish on the menu? To look at the tag before the item on the rack, the way people look at the descriptions of paintings in a museum before lifting their eyes to the work?”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

“لا أحد فرح به حيا ولا حزن عليه ميتا : البخيل”
― أنيس منصور, قالوا

“Stinginess is a crude survival trait.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A selfish life is as empty as a candle sitting astride of a grave that is doomed to blow out with the next puff of dry wind.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“No doubt he thought: This woman owns thousands of books and yet she's unwilling to lend me even one. But I treasure this volume, and I doubt that he'd be able to appreciate a single word of it.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

“The resistance that’s blocking your man‘s generosity towards you is the same resistance that’s blocking your sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“The stingy person's money often flows away, like water from a clenched fist, only to be absorbed by others who know how to sow generosity and reap abundance.”
― Shaila Touchton