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What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life? — Syrus Publilius

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's. — William Hazlitt

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! — William Wordsworth

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. — Jean De La Bruyere

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter

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

The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough. — Barry Hughart

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. — William Shenstone

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. — Karl Marx

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus — Robert Galbraith

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. — Horace

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift. — Horace

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. — Thomas Fuller

A miser is merely a pauper with fewer friends. — Anthony Ryan

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

Generosity brings you respect from people and those who are miser get hatred from people. — Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

Miser Shen is preparing to spend the night with a goat. — Barry Hughart

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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. — William Shakespeare

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. — Josiah Johnson Hawes

You don't have to be a miser, just be wiser with your money. — Dorethia Conner Kelly

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

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. — Gertrude Stein

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty. — Publilius Syrus

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser. — Chen Guangbiao

Never was a miser a brave soul. — George Herbert

If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy. — Rajneesh

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 ape. — George Santayana

The miser robs himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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 trouble. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha

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

Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free. — Richard Henry Stoddard

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. — Tom Wolfe

If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it. — Fred Phelps

In my opinion , every rich man is a miser. — Michel De Montaigne

I felt like some crazy old miser, gloating over his piles of gold coins, only instead of coins, it was seconds that I hoarded. — Stephenie Meyer

I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility — H.G.Wells

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by 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 will have no profit. — Gautama Buddha

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. — Robertson Davies

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money. — Catherine Crook De Camp

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them. — Witter Bynner

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus

Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth,
Sweet is revenge
especially to women — George Gordon Byron

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold. — Hans Christian Andersen

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. — Virginia Woolf

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