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This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.

Tom Wolfe

Artist Beauty Eternity Glory Glutton Life Man Miser

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Health Miser Waste

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

Honore De Balzac

Enjoyment Key Miser Thought World

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

Publilius Syrus

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

William Shenstone

The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.

Thomas Fuller

Devil Lies Miser

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.

Theodore Parker

Body Brother Death Injustice Miser Poor Soul

Never was a miser a brave soul.

George Herbert

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Gertrude Stein

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Karl Kraus

Inheritance Miser Wisdom

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

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.

William Blake

Eyes Miser Money Sun

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.

William Blake

Cause Miser Money Passion People Thieving Want

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

John Dryden

May Miser Money Son Soul Trade

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.

James Payn

Life Mind Miser Nothing