Quotes about spending money rather than saving? By Benjamin Franklin, or perhaps, others?

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ---- zero.” Voltaire

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life--unless I buy something. ~ Jackie Mason

Anyone who says money doesn't buy happiness doesn't know where to shop. ~ Anonymous

Great spenders are bad lenders. ~ Benjamin Franklin

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both. ~ Edouard Bourdet

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting."

--Benjamin Franklin

"You asked, do I feel free. Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it..."

--George W. Bush, November 2004

a penny saved is a penny earned i this was by Ben Franklin He also said, “Creditors have better memories than debtors.”ne of my favorites comes from the bible "a fool and his money are soon parted"

A penny saved is a penny earned. BF

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

Charles Dickens - from David Copperfield

(This is true more than ever in the age of credit cards.)

A penny saved is ridiculous.