parsimonia

I suffered from this type of parsimonia all through my teenage and college years.

Janet Kinosian: A Short Guide To Understanding Your Nightmares 2009

"The noble lord hints that I have erred in the quantity of a principal word in my quotation; I rejoice at it, sir, because it gives me an opportunity of repeating the inestimable adage, -- 'Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.'"

Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Orison Swett Marden 1887

Edmund Burke, speaking on Economic Reform, quoted from Cicero: "Magnum vectigal est parsimonia," accenting the second word on the first syllable.

Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Orison Swett Marden 1887

Ferdinand; "Ma accade," adds the historian, truly enough, "quasi sempre per il giudizio corrotto degli uomini, che nei Re è più lodata la prodigalità, benche a quella sia annessa la rapacità, che la parsimonia congiunta con l'astinenza dalla roba di altri."

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

[565] {478} "Nonnullorum e nobilitate immensæ sunt opes, adeo ut vix æstimari possint; id quod tribus e rebus oritur, parsimonia, commercio, atque iis emolumentis, quæ e Repub. percipiunt, quæ hanc ob caussam diuturna fore creditur."

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Non intelligunt homines quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia.

The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV 1750

There was a proverb, _sero parsimonia in fundo_, something like this, Sen. _Ep. _ i. 5, from the Greek (Hes.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Alexandra Magno in pueritia sine parsimonia thura ingerenti aris, pædagogus Leonides dixerat, ut illo modo, cum devicisset thuriferas gentes, supplicaret.

Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661