Miser Quotes - page 2

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. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all Ridicule and Deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers.. (William Blake)
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions that a vine filled with grapes. View quote
William Blake
Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free. View quote
Richard Henry Stoddard
A subject interests me and holds my attention only so long as it presents me with difficulties, only so long as I am at odds with it and have, as it were, to struggle with it; but once I have mastered it I hurry on to something else, to a new subject; for my interest is not confined to any particular field or subject; it extends to everything human. This does not mean that I am an intellectual miser or egoist, who amasses knowledge for himself alone; by no means! What I do and think for myself, I must also think and do for others. But I feel the need of instructing others in a subject only so long as, while instructing others, I am also instructing myself. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. View quote
Karl Marx
We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke. View quote
Alan King
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. View quote
James Payn
I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser. View quote
Chen Guangbiao
People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end. View quote
Herbert Spencer
[From Ianthe] I am a miser Of all thy thoughts and words, and looks and feelings- Oh, I am jealous of a leaf, a flower, A song, a star, if much thought on by thee! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
If the miser reaches the point of sacrificing his health, his pleasures, and even his very honesty for the love of his money, shall we not succeed in learning to love so noble an aim as intellectual work sufficiently to make us sacrifice our laziness for a few hours every day? ... Should not our young people therefore spend at least five hours a day at their work-table in order to assure for themselves, both now and in the future, the manifold joys of intellectual culture? (Jules Payot)
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty. View quote
Publilius Syrus
At 46 one must be a miser only have time for essentials. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house as your pearl in a foul oyster. View quote
William Shakespeare
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. View quote
Theodore Parker
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. View quote
Josh Billings
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold. View quote
John Adams