Tipping change is bad luck, people. If you can't round your generosity up to a whole dollar, then just embrace your cheapness. Don't try to pay off your guilty conscience with quarters.

Those who do not have will always serve those who do.

Isn't Glen an accountant? We're all frugal." These days, by necessity.

"You might be frugal, but Glen is cheap. For Valentine's Day, he actually suggested that we go to a card shop, exchange cards in the aisle, then put them back because he didn't see the use in spending the money!"

"Okay, that's cheap."

Libby huffed. "I swear, if he cuts up my Bloomingdale's card, I'll cut off his pecker.

Cheapness is common to common people. Sastapan aam aadmi ke liye aam baat hai.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.