Misers Quotes

82 quotes by 66 authors

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth. — Gautama Buddha
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches… — Gautama Buddha
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Publius Attius Varus
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty. — Publilius Syrus
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. — Publilius Syrus
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like… — Alonzo King
A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how… — John L. Parker Jr.
We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and… — Theodore Parker
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too… — James Payn
Listen to me instead of your financial manager: Itâ€™s okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. Itâ€™s… — Cassandra King
Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that… — Richard J. Foster
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. — Jean de la Bruyere
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. — Gertrude Stein
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! — William Wordsworth
You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an… — Anais Nin
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter
God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy. — Max Lucado

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