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
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
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
Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death. — Stanisław I Leszczyński 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
We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
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
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
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 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
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The… — Adam Smith 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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