Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal,… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. — Josh Billings 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
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
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
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is… — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali Copy Share Image
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in… — William Benton Clulow 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
Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need… — Richard J. Foster 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
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state,… — William F. Buckley, Jr 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
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
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
Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
“Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
