Bears Quote by William Benton Clulow

A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend and saves for those who will bury him.

— Vikrant Parsai

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want…

— Charles Lamb

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

— Publilius Syrus

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

— Martin E. Marty

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.

— Theodore Parker

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The martyr is the exact opposite of the pagan hero personified in the Greek and Germanic heroes … For the pagan hero, a man’s…

— Alain de Benoist

“A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no…

— Michael Novak

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

— Ambrose Bierce

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…

— Theodore Parker