The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Publius Attius Varus Copy Share Image
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has… — John L. Parker Jr Copy Share Image
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end.… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man goodness, the miser with generosity, and the liar with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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