“ While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 3K
“ Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.5K
“ It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard. ”
- Robert W. Service- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 791
“ 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- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes — and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 742
“ 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- Copy
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“ Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ CURMU'DGEON. n. s. An avaritious churlish fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl; a griper. Cu'rmudgeonly, adj. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 675
“ Lead on!" said Scrooge. "Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit! ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 89
“ If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3K
“ I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all. ”
- Albert Finney- Copy
- 1.5K
“ He's a comical old fellow," said Scrooge's nephew, "that's the truth: and not so pleasant as he might be. However, his offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.7K
“ All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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