“ I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ”
- Pietro Aretino- Copy
- 2.6K
“ People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
- 3K
“ A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 151
“ Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. - As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 908
“ It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
- 2.2K
“ After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself. ”
- Gaius Lucilius- Copy
- 3.6K
“ So precious life is! Even to the oldThe hours are as a misers coins! ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 539
“ Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ”
- Gertrude Stein- Copy
- 3.7K
“ All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 91
“ No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 802
“ 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
- 1.4K
“ CURMU'DGEON. n. s. An avaritious churlish fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl; a griper. Cu'rmudgeonly, adj. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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
- 1.9K
“ 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. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
- 266
“ Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it. ”
- Red Barber- Copy
- 2K
“ 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
- 559
“ Too often in the past, members of Congress have won re-election with a two-part strategy: Talk like Scrooge on the campaign trail. Vote like Santa Claus on the Senate floor. ”
- Edmund S. Muskie- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 2.1K
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