A Quote by Publilius Syrus

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

Publilius Syrus

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Miser Much Want

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

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

Gertrude Stein

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.

Rajneesh

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

Karl Marx

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

Chen Guangbiao

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

A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.

John L. Parker Jr.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

William Blake

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!

Charles Lamb

That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!

Eric Thomas

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.