Best 15 quotes in «stingy quotes» category

Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

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.

A poor generous man is greatly praised. A stingy rich man is greatly despised.

If you feel that you are a miserly stingy parsimonious guy, at least let not that impression formed in the minds of others.

Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.

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.

If you are generous, you are rich, no matter how little you have; if you are stingy, you are poor, no matter how much you have.

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

Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss.

Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.

Be stingy with your money! Don't splurge at the mall - and definitely don't give it to your boyfriend!

The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.

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.

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.