Inspirational Quote by Witter Bynner

Never was a miser a brave soul.

— George Herbert

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

— Simone Weil

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

— Josh Billings

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

— Charles Spurgeon

The miser robs himself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

— Publius Attius Varus

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

— Laurence J. Peter

A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better…

— William Benton Clulow

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

— Robert E. Sherwood

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

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for…

— Charles Caleb Colton