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Misers Quotes

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

Wilfred Bion
Benefits, Care, Misers

I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.

Witter Bynner
Memories, Misers
Witter Bynner (1919). “The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song & a Divertisement for the Unknown Lover”

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

William Wordsworth
Truth, Favourite, Misers
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.428

The misers cheese is wholesomest

Benjamin Franklin
Cheese, Misers
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Women, Affection, Misers

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

Horace
Use, Gains, Misers
"Ars Poetica" by Horace, 170,

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Publilius Syrus
Greed, Want, Misers
"Maxims".

The miser robs himself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Misers

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Albert Camus
Excess, Disappear, Misers
Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.9, Vintage

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Cunning, Cleverness, Misers

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

William Hazlitt
Inspirational, Value Of Time, Misers
William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

Simone Weil
Desire, Treasure, Misers
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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