Misers Quotes

82 quotes by 66 authors

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become… — William Hazlitt
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world. — Thomas Traherne
October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money… — Charles Caleb Colton
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. — Josh Billings
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others. — Wilfred Bion
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life? — Publilius Syrus
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his… — Charles Caleb Colton
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty. — Andre Gide
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who… — Mary McCarthy
When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're… — John C. Maxwell
Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in… — Al-Ghazali
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter… — Horace
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
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The misers cheese is wholesomest — Benjamin Franklin
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
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. — William Shenstone

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