Quotes About Miser

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

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.

There are two kinds of avaricious person—the bold, grasping type who will ruin you if he can, but who never looks twice at twopence, and the petty miser who has not the enterprise actually to MAKE money, but who will always, as the saying goes, take a farthing from a dunghill with his teeth.

The miserable misery of the miser

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

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.

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

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.

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.

Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end, while perhaps if we allowed ourselves more idle time we would conserve our nervous strength and health to more than the value of the work we could accomplish by emulating at all times the little busy bee. Laura Ingalls Wilder; , February 20, 1916

Mean Mr. Mustard Such a dirty old man Such a dirty old man

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

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

I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them. When they were anticipations I spent them And bought you with them, But now I have exchanged you for memories, And I will only pour them from one hand into the other And back again.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!

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

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

Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge--especially to women

Never was a miser a brave soul.

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.

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

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.