Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to… — George D. Prentice 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
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
[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
If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ...… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes… — Ralph Washington Sockman 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness… — Seneca 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 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
If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it. — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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