Oliver Goldsmith on Happiness and Frugality

Oliver Goldsmith Money Quotation saying governments should learn to be frugal and avoid spending on superfluous programs to gain happiness for the citizens. Oliver Goldsmith said:
 

 

“If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness” — Oliver Goldsmith

 
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William Shenstone on Appetite for Pleasures

William Shenstone Money Quotation saying there is a correlation between loud denouncement of cash with to those who most want what it can procure. William Shenstone said:
 

“It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures” — William Shenstone

 
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Henry David Thoreau: Less Costly Pleasures

Henry David Thoreau Money Quote saying that men are richer who gain more pleasure from less costly experiences than from more expensive adventures.

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest
— Henry David Thoreau