100+ Misers Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

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topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Guinea, Spirit Of Life

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

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Time, Age, Essentials, Misers

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Christian, Citizens, Wealth, Misers

Never was a miser a brave soul.

- George Herbert

topic: Bravery, Soul, Literature, Misers, Brave Souls

The misers cheese is wholesomest

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Misers

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

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

topic: Fall, Vanity, World, Misers

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Peculiar, Extravagance, Coins, Spendthrift, Misers

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Soul, Doe, Misery, Misers

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

- William Shenstone

source: William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.156

topic: Money, Men, Rich, Extravagant, Misers

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

- Francis Picabia

topic: Men, Degrees, Misery, Misers

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 and naked and miserable

- Theodore Parker

topic: Brother, Soul, Body, Misers

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

- Karl Marx

topic: Philosophical, Mad, Gone, Misers

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.23

topic: Misers, Accumulating Wealth

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

- Rajneesh

topic: Insecure, Would Be, Rubbish, Misers

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

- William Shenstone

source: William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.148

topic: Reason, Awe, Approach, Misers

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Heirs, Misery, Spendthrift, Misers

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

- James Payn

source: James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

topic: Mind, Littles, Benevolence, Benevolent, Misers

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

- William Blake

source: William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Passion, People, Thieves, Misers, Crimes Of Passion

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

- Robertson Davies

source: Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

topic: Book, Writing, Dope, Misers

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

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Wish, Literature, Misery, Misers

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

source: George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.44, MIT Press

topic: Apes, Irrational, Terrible, Misers, Drunkards

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

- Karl Kraus

source: Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

topic: Wisdom, Experience, Saving, Misers

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

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Liars, Evil, Liberality, Misers

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: Virginibus Puerisque Ch. 5

topic: Health, Waste, Spendthrift, Misers

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Money, Heart, Greed, Misers, Imbecility

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

- William Blake

topic: Beautiful, Money, Eye, Guinea, Misers

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Lying, Devil, Brooding, Misers

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

- Alexander Pope

topic: Taste, Gains, Care, Misers

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

- John Dryden

topic: War, Son, Soul, Misers

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

- Edward Dahlberg

topic: Men, Giving, Misery, Misers

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

- Josh Billings

topic: Two, Buzzards, Stores, Gluttony, Misers

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

- Lord Byron

topic: Shoes, Charity, Misery, Misers, Peas

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Motivational, Happiness, Happy, Just Be Happy, Secret To Happiness

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Mean, Exercise, Men, Misers, Early Childhood

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.242

topic: Sadness, Comfort, Literature, Misers

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]

topic: Funny, Depression, Husband, Strange Bedfellows, Misers

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

- Horace Walpole

topic: Ink, Dots, Misery, Misers, Duchess

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 cause, would make a saint or a martyr.

- William Benton Clulow

source: William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.426

topic: Character, Sacrifice, Self, Misers