Top 113 Miser Quotes & Sayings

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

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.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

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

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

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

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

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

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

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

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

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

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

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

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

If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.

I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!

I was an integral part of school plays. And when I was in the ninth standard, Om Shivpuri directed me in a play called 'The Miser.' It was a huge hit.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

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.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

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

The miser robs himself.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

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

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

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

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

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

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.