Miserly Quotes

17 quotes by 14 authors

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Fadiman
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly." — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with… — Mary Balogh
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for… — Giambattista Bodoni
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the… — Clifton Fadiman
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
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner. — Ann Wigmore
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely… — Charles Fort
Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case. — Pythagoras
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices… — Thornton Wilder
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have… — Rajneesh
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
The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer.… — Luanne Rice
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more… — Rajneesh
Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money. — Kate Reardon
I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and… — Fidel Castro

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