Quotes with miser

  • If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

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  • William Shakespeare A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Virginia Woolf At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Karl Kraus Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Dryden Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • William Blake I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Brendan Francis If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • George Herbert Never was a miser a brave soul.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Gertrude Stein Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • George Santayana 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.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Josh Billings The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Thomas Wolfe This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Robertson Davies To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • William Blake To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake 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
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Karl Marx While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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