Top 100 Miser Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
Brendan Francis
#3. Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
Gautama Buddha
#4. The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
Charles Caleb Colton
#5. 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
#6. The deep art ... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money ... Like a dope addict would his dope ... Like a lover with their love.
Alonzo King
#7. 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
#8. While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx
#9. This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Tom Wolfe
#10. Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
Gautama Buddha
#11. 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
#12. The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
Josh Billings
#13. If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.
Fred Phelps
#14. 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
#15. I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#16. 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
#17. A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!
Charles Lamb
#18. Miser Shen is preparing to spend the night with a goat.
Barry Hughart
#19. She said, 'You know that I love you.' And, despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold.
Neil Gaiman
#20. A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.
John L. Parker Jr.
#21. 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
#22. Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#23. 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
#24. Only when you can feel contempt for your own priceless little ego, only then can you achieve the true, broad peace of selflessness, the merging of your spirit with the vast collective spirit of mankind. There is no room for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser's hole of a private ego.
Ayn Rand
#26. Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Gertrude Stein
#27. Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
John Lancaster Spalding
#28. Rocco loving them both so much that he knew he'd never tell a soul about this moment, just take it to bed with him every night for years, like a miser's secret stash of gold.
Richard Price
#29. 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
#30. Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#31. Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
George D. Prentice
#32. In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.
Adam Smith
#33. Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
Honore De Balzac
#35. As you give yourself wholeheartedly to me, I am able to give back to you with greater abundance. Do not be a miser with your spirit. Commit to me. Spend energy on me and I will reward you with a life beyond your dreams.
Julia Cameron
#36. 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
#37. Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Laurence J. Peter
#38. The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.
Simone Weil
#40. A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone
#41. 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
#42. Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster.
William Shakespeare
#43. 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
#44. Generosity brings you respect from people and those who are miser get hatred from people.
Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury
#45. To hold fealty to your own and to call it a high virtue is ludicrous. Even animals protect their own. It is a good, but it is a common good, an easy one. It's a miser who says he grows rich not for himself, but for his children. His vice is not thus magically made virtue.
Brent Weeks
#46. 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
#47. I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.
Witter Bynner
#48. Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#50. When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Horace
#52. 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
#53. To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies
#54. Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.
Matthew Henry
#55. The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Publilius Syrus
#56. According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
John Gerard
#57. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#64. 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
#65. The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
#66. There is no
room for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser's hole of a private
ego. Be empty in order to be filled. 'He that loveth his life shall lose it; and
he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Ayn Rand
#68. If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
Charles Caleb Colton
#69. The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Horace
#70. I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
Albert Camus
#71. We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator ... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
Alan King
#72. You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life's hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine.
Joe L. Wheeler
#74. What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?
Syrus Publilius
#75. The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
Robert E. Sherwood
#76. The miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork."
"Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?"
"Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#78. There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer
#79. 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
#80. October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#81. Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action - and consequently accumulate grain on grain of willful choice like a very miser - never forgetting how one link dropped undone and indefinite number. - William James
Mason Currey
#83. A miser is merely a pauper with fewer friends.
Anthony Ryan
#85. 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
#86. Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
#87. Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It's okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It's just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don't squander a single minute of it.
Cassandra King
#88. The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.
Theodore Parker
#89. 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
#91. After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.
Irene Nemirovsky
#93. I'll tell you something: I'll always be broke. It's a tradition in the family. My grandfather was a bankrupt. My father was a pauper. My uncle was a miser: he went crazy because he couldn't find any money to mise over.
James Hadley Chase
#94. The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.
Charles Caleb Colton
#95. At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Virginia Woolf
#96. I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility
H.G.Wells
#97. 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
#98. The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#99. Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.
Richard J. Foster
#100. We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money ... Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
John Vianney
