1. Whoever scrimps on food and clothing on weekdays will easily get through difficulties when he is poor; whoever is luxurious and extravagant when he is rich will die of hunger and cold when he is poor. ——Sadie

2. Luxury always follows fornication, and fornication always follows luxury. ——Montesquieu

3. The inevitable consequence of luxury—the disintegration of etiquette—which in turn causes the corruption of taste. ——Rousseau

4. Extravagance leads to more desires. A gentleman who is too lustful will seek wealth and honor, which will lead to disaster in vain. ——Sima Guang

5. Being extravagant means taking things for granted and humiliating one's ambition; if one is frugal, one has nothing to ask for from others and nothing to be ashamed of oneself, which can nourish one's spirit. ——Luo Dajing

6. Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success was achieved by diligence and frugality, and destruction was achieved by extravagance. ——Li Shangyin

7. Quietness cultivates one’s character, and frugality cultivates virtue. ——Zhuge Liang

8. If you strengthen your foundation and use it sparingly, you will never be poor. ——Xun Kuang

9. Those who are extravagant and lazy are poor, while those who are powerful and thrifty are rich. ——Han Fei

10. The journey of a gentleman is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility, and to cultivate one’s virtue through frugality. If it is not indifferent, it will not clear its aspirations, and if it is not tranquil, it will not lead to far. ——Zhuge Liang

11. Those who are extravagant are in ruins and those who are frugal are at peace. One evil and one good are in front of you. ——Bai Juyi

12. Do not think about danger in times of peace, abstain from extravagance and be frugal; cut down the roots in order to grow trees, plug the sources in order to have a long flow. ——Wei Zheng

13. Building a family is like picking up soil with a needle, and losing a family is like surfing the sand.

14. Success comes from diligence and frugality, failure comes from luxury.

15. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

16. Don’t use a bucket to pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls. ——Kazakh

17. Don’t eat the fruits of your hard work in one sitting. ——Uyghurs

18. Diligence can make up for weakness, and saving can make up for poverty.

19. Frugality is the secret to getting rich. ——Britain

20. Frugality itself is a property. ——Britain

21. Frugality is a feast that you can never stop eating in your life. ——Emerson

22. How much you save is how much you get. ——Denmark

23. Gold has no seeds and comes from thrifty families.

24. Luxury is like wine, which both excites and debilitates people. ——Karl

25. Luxury is the starting point of national weakness. ——Cuba

26. Frugality is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ——Greece

27. A porridge and a meal should be remembered as hard-earned, and half a strand of persistent thoughts are hard to come by.

28. Who knows that every piece of food on the plate is hard work.

29. A porridge and a meal are exchanged for beads of sweat.

30. All savings are, in the final analysis, time savings.

——Marx