A Quote by Gertrude Stein

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

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
American - Novelist
February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946

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

Karl Marx

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

Publilius Syrus

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

Rajneesh

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Virginia Woolf

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

Andre Gide

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

Publilius Syrus

The miser robs himself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

Chen Guangbiao

Never was a miser a brave soul.

George Herbert

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

Michel de Montaigne

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Thomas Fuller

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

William Hazlitt

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

William Benton Clulow

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

George D. Prentice

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