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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
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 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
Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas JeffersonRich 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
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
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
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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
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 youAnd 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