This week was the deadline for those silly men of the US congress to make some decisions to avert the econopocalypse, so this week’s quotes have been devoted to greed, thrift, debt, and indecision.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Edward Abbey

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.
- Seneca

He who does not economize will have to agonize.
- Confucius

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
- Benjamin Franklin

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
- John D. Rockefeller

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
- Ambrose Bierce

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
- Paul Getty

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
- Paul Getty

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
- Calvin Coolidge