We do not expect that the idle and thriftless will admire them, but it may help them to discover that 'Idleness is the parent of want, while the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
I am, you see, a thriftless, wandering adventurer-one who has taken things as they came, and never has been serious.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
His father, an easy-going thriftless man, had fixed on no definite profession for him, dimly reckoning on the chance that "something was sure to turn up" when the boy was old enough.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford