A Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

The miser robs himself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Himself Miser

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Johann Kaspar Lavater
German - Theologian
November 15, 1741 - January 2, 1801

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

Gertrude Stein

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

Seneca the Younger

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.

Stefan Molyneux

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

Karl Marx

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

Josiah Johnson Hawes

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

Karl Marx

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

John Tillotson

Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

Annalee Newitz

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

Simone Weil

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

Lois Lenski

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.