Top 31 Quotes About Miserly
#1. Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.
Richard Dawkins
#2. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi
#3. You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.
Sarah Dessen
#4. If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.
Robert Greene
#5. They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
Franz Grillparzer
#6. A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover
Clifton Fadiman
#7. It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
Emily Bronte
#8. Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
Pythagoras
#9. He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.
Scott Cairns
#10. In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#11. 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
#12. My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.
Jimmy Carter
#13. Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.
Anonymous
#14. On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
John Jay Hooker
#15. Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.
Kate Reardon
#16. Miserly curmudgeons may help themselves, but considerate and generous believers the Lord will help. As you have done unto others, so will the Lord do unto you. Empty your pockets.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.
Giambattista Bodoni
#18. The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let's be as miserly as the sea.
Arthur Rimbaud
#19. The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
Ann Wigmore
#20. When the number of children goes over one, God becomes miserly in granting intelligence; he takes it from the living child and gives it to the child to be born.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. If you feel that you are a miserly stingy parsimonious guy,
at least let not that impression formed in the minds of others.
Toba Beta
#22. Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.
Chuck Noll
#23. See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
Paul Cezanne
#24. The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
Michel De Montaigne
#25. More than that, though, it gained a definite spiritual chill. Malevolent energy hovered around us, slow and thick like half-frozen honey. There was a gloating, miserly quality to it, bringing to my mind images of old Smaug lying in covetous slumber upon his bed of treasure.
Jim Butcher
#26. After all, if a community could reach some sort of an equilibrium without having to be guided by an outsider, then so much the better.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#28. We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
Maimonides
#29. I have no large desire to sacrifice much of my personal habits, intellectual pleasures, and personal standards in order to become a billionaire like Warren Buffett, and I certainly do not see point of becoming one if I were to adopt Spartan (even miserly) habits and live in my starter house.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#30. Men are tight-fisted in keeping control of their fortunes, but when it comes to the matter of wasting time, they are positively extravagant in the one area where there is honour in being miserly.
Seneca.
#31. Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Thornton Wilder
