Quotes
Quotes about Miser
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.
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.
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.
Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser? [Lat., Abiturus illuc priores abierunt, Quid mente caeca torques spiritum? Tibi dico, avare.]
'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy; Is it less strange the prodigal should waste His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood. Thou art no father nor friend of mine.
The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.]
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]
Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.
This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables, Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]
The child of misery, baptized in tears!
But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas Audire miseri.]
