Misers Quotes
Misers Quote of the day
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!
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.
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.
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.
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
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.
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
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.
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.
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.
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.
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.
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.
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.
A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.