Thrift Quotes

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. - Thomas A. Edison

Was about admitting my guilt of promoting new clothes each season. There was something that didn't feel morally exactly right about it. Enough money is squandered on fashion - I wanted to make a statement that clothes from the past are still valid. We chose Oxfam because it's where so many stylists get thrift from, and it felt circular for the money to go back to Oxfam. - Nick Knight

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies. - Ambrose Bierce

Thrift shop popularity parallels increased poverty. - Martin Dansky

Thrift is of great revenue. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America. - Louis A. Johnson

They thought I was off the wall, I guess. - Syd Thrift

There's still a very great need for that. Monroe is an affluent town, but there are people here who depend on thrift shops. - Lois Spence

There's sort of a magic boundary line. Something has its moment, and then it's gone; it becomes thrift-store trash. But then, once enough time has passed, people say: 'Oh, yeah! I remember those.' It used to take about 20 years, but everything is so sped up now that our sense of nostalgia has been sped up, too, so it doesn't take as long -- I'd say about 10 years. - Travis Smith