Miser Quotes
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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'. (Quote by - Dan Castellaneta)
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The miser robs himself. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater )
The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. (Quote by - Claude Arien Helvetius)
The misers cheese is wholesomest (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. (Quote by - Swedish Proverb)
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. (Quote by - Seneca)
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? (Quote by - Carrie P. Snow)
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! (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. (Quote by - Carlos Casteneda)
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. (Quote by - Horace )
I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. (Quote by - Rudolph Valentino)
And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. (Quote by - Robert Emmet Sherwood)
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends. (Quote by - Charles Sprague)
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer)
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. (Quote by - William Benton Clulow)
History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an illustrious miser. (Quote by - Charles de Marguetel de Saint)
Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else. (Quote by - Chris Rock)
The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
O cursed hunger of pernicious gold? (Quote by - John Dryden)
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. (Quote by - Clare Boothe Luce)
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. (Quote by - Clifton Fadiman)
Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer)
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. (Quote by - Chamfort)
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so (Quote by - Boethius)
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision (Quote by - William James)
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. (Quote by - Chamfort)
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. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. (Quote by - Charles H. Spurgeon)
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. (Quote by - Cynthia Nelms)
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas it is only the means of obtaining it. (Quote by - Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
