Economy Comfort

Famous quotes containing the words economy and/or comfort:

“Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can
do no more spoil upon my face.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)