George Burns Quotes

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.

You can become rich by being cheap but the problem is that even though you are rich, you are still cheap

Niggards are oftentimes neat.

Gilbert Gottfried is famously cheap. I'm impressed you're here Gilbert. You gotta buy new clothes and take a week off work just to do this. But you showed up. You tightened your belt and you came. You're like David Carradine.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

My wife and I are really strange people. We never spend any money.

I'd make Jack Benny look like a philanthropist.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.

I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.