The deep art. . . That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money. . . Like a dope addict would his dope. . . Like a lover with their love.
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
In my opinion , every rich man is a miser.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.
A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy.
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
Never was a miser a brave soul.
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.
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.
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.