Miser Quotes

75 quotes by 60 authors

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. — Horace
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen. — Miguel de Cervantes
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of… — Benjamin Franklin
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from… — Charles Lamb
The miser robs himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. — Theodore Parker
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. — Thomas Fuller
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. — Robertson Davies
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are… — John Dryden
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. — Karl Marx
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. — Spike Milligan
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the… — George Santayana
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man goodness, the miser with generosity, and the liar with truth. (Indian proverb)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of… — Jean-Paul Sartre
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a… — Neil Gaiman
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. — Virginia Woolf
Friendship is a prodigal, but love is a miser. — Proverb

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