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

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. — Laurence Sterne

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain. — Norm MacDonald

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world. — Thomas Traherne

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us. — Oliver Goldsmith

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

Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants — Michael Bassey Johnson

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. — William Shenstone

We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless. — Margaret Atwood

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

Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am an animal, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are fake niggers; maniacs, savages, misers, all of you. — Arthur Rimbaud

The miser robs himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. — Michel De Montaigne

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

Financial uncertainty turns some people into misers and others into spendthrifts. — Rebecca Loncraine

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. — Pietro Aretino

Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning. — Henry Miller

It's age. It makes misers of us," he said dolefully. "Counting out our lives in small change from a thinning purse. — Peter Maughan

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others. — Wilfred Bion

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

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

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

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

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. — Laurence Sterne

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings. — Jean De La Bruyere

For the door to the house had many bolts, locks, bars, and fasteners, as is common in the dwellings of misers. — Michael Crichton

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The misers cheese is wholesomest — Benjamin Franklin

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. — G.K. Chesterton