“A penny saved is a penny got.”
Benjamin Franklin book Poor Richard's Almanack
Preface, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758)
Poor Richard's Almanack
Act III, sc. xii
The Miser (1733)
“A penny saved is a penny got.”
Benjamin Franklin book Poor Richard's Almanack
Preface, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758)
Poor Richard's Almanack
“… a penny saved is better than a penny earned.”
Martin Luther book Table Talk
The Duty of a Husband and Wife (17 March 1539), No. 4408. LW 54:337 http://books.google.com/books?id=zsbXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&dq=%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&lr= <br class="br">Table Talk (1569)
“This I did to prevent expences, for … a penny sav'd, is a penny got.”
Edward Ravenscroft (1654–1707) English dramatist
The Canterbury Guests: or, a bargain broken (1695), Act II, scene iv.
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
The History of the Worthies of England (1662) ; Worthies of Huntingtonshire – John Yong.
“A penny saved is two pence clear.”
Benjamin Franklin book Poor Richard's Almanack
"Hints For Those That Would Be Rich", Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)
Poor Richard's Almanack
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
What Luther Says, Section on “Life, Human,” No. 2438. Rules for a Thrifty Life. 2, p. 784 http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=NQA5AAAAIAAJ&dq=luther+%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&q=+%22penny+%22#search_anchorvol|.
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, Article IV, p. 951.
“4369. That penny's well spent, that saves a Groat.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“502. A penny spar'd is twice got.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“342. A Penny sav'd is Two-pence got.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : A Penny sav'd is Twopence clear.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)