Misers Quotes

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

  Theodore Parker

  Soul, Body, Fool

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Example, Purpose

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Treasure, Enjoy

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• Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!

  Al-Ghazali

  Love, Kings, Cutting

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• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
  For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  "A Memorable Fancy". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Age, Essentials

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Christian, Citizens, Wealth

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• Never was a miser a brave soul.

  George Herbert

  Bravery, Soul, Literature

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• The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

  Horace

  Use, Gains, Acquire

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, 170,

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• The misers cheese is wholesomest

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheese

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Vanity, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

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• 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.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Flesh, Peculiar, Extravagance

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 211), 1989.

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

  William Wordsworth

  Truth, Favourite, Prodigals

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.428

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• A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Soul, Doe, Misery

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

  William Shenstone

  Money, Men, Rich

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.156

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• Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

  Wilfred Bion

  Benefits, Care, Property

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• Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

  Francis Picabia

  Men, Degrees, Misery

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• The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

  Theodore Parker

  Brother, Soul, Naked

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.55

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

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Mad, Gone

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.171, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Greed, Want

  "Maxims".

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Joy, Citizens

  Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.23

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• 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

  Insecure, Would Be, Rubbish

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• Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

  William Shenstone

  Reason, Awe, Approach

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.148

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• The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heirs, Misery, Spendthrift

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• 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.

  James Payn

  Mind, Littles, Benevolence

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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