Quotes
Quotes about Miser
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 't were to buy a world of happy days.
Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope.
To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.
The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasure.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
This, this is misery! the last, the worst
That man can feel.
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me,
For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!
In misery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh
Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain,
Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain;
Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew,
The big drops mingling with the milk he drew
Gave the sad presage of his future years,--
The child of misery, baptized in tears.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
To be a Prodigal's favourite,--then, worse truth,
A Miser's pensioner,--behold our lot!
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain
And Fear and Bloodshed,--miserable train!--
Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
O suffering, sad humanity!
O ye afflicted ones, who lie
Steeped to the lips in misery,
Longing, yet afraid to die,
Patient, though sorely tried!
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
