Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. — William Shenstone 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical,… — Alan King 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 can copy anything; your mode of dressing, the way you talk, walk, dance, sing, cry, but they will find it very… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power… — Walt Whitman 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
When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no… — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
