Top 40 Quotes About Misers: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Misers

#1. As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

Horace

#2. We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless.

Margaret Atwood

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

William Shenstone

#4. Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#5. Financial uncertainty turns some people into misers and others into spendthrifts.

Rebecca Loncraine

#6. The misers cheese is wholesomest

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants

Michael Bassey Johnson

#8. No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

Alexander Pope

#9. Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning.

Henry Miller

#10. We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

Slavoj Zizek

#11. For the door to the house had many bolts, locks, bars, and fasteners, as is common in the dwellings of misers.

Michael Crichton

#12. Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#13. Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the
little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and
tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
last devours them all at a mouthful:

William Shakespeare

#15. Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am an animal, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are fake niggers; maniacs, savages, misers, all of you.

Arthur Rimbaud

#16. 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

#17. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world.

Thomas Traherne

#18. Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

Norm MacDonald

#19. It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

Oliver Goldsmith

#20. Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#21. It's age. It makes misers of us," he said dolefully. "Counting out our lives in small change from a thinning purse.

Peter Maughan

#22. Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

Mary McCarthy

#23. Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

Wilfred Bion

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

Jean De La Bruyere

#25. 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

#26. People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

#27. Like Mrs Pleasance I always fancy that misers are old. I cannot tell why this should be since I am sure that there are as many young misers as old. As to whether or not Mr Norrell was in fact old, he was the sort of man who had been old at seventeen.

Susanna Clarke

#28. As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

William Hazlitt

#29. People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

#30. Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.

Frederick Lenz

#31. I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Pietro Aretino