Misers Quotes

82 Misers quotes by 66 unique authors

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
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal… — Alexander Pope
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
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
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
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. — Laurence Sterne
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. — Robert Louis Stevenson
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching,… — Walt Whitman
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus

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