14 Quotes on Miser

• The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

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

  Author: Robert Stevenson

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

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

  Author: William Shenstone

• 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.

  Author: George Santayana

• 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.

  Author: Theodore Parker

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

  Author: Karl Marx

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

  Author: Karl Kraus

• Never was a miser a brave soul.

  Author: George Herbert

• The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

  Author: Thomas Fuller

• 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.

  Author: John Dryden

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

  Author: Robertson Davies

• 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.

  Author: William Blake

• 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.

  Author: William Blake

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