Top 31 Quotes About Miserly
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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.
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
Ann Wigmore
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.
Richard Dawkins
#15. If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.
Robert Greene
#16. 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
#17. A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover
Clifton Fadiman
#18. 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
#19. In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#20. 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
#21. Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.
Anonymous
#22. Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.
Kate Reardon
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
Emily Bronte
#26. He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.
Scott Cairns
#27. 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
#28. On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
John Jay Hooker
#29. Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.
Chuck Noll
#30. 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
