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
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. — William Shakespeare 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
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar,… — John Gerard Copy Share Image
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others… — Horace Copy Share Image
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It’s age. It makes misers of us,” he said dolefully. “Counting out our lives in small change from a thinning purse.” — Peter Maughan Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
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
You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to… — Charles Lamb 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
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
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift. — Horace Copy Share Image
“A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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 cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” quote by Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f4/ouida-3651_avarice_on-christianity-its-lip-service-and-its_1641749.png)
![“He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.” quote by Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/091/charles-caleb-colton-270_down-and_he-the-miser-falls-down-and-worships-the_569127.png)
