Miser
A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
A despicable person; a wretch.
A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
A kind of large earth auger.
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Miser Quotations
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx
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
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
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Gertrude Stein
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
Thomas Fuller
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
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
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Tom Wolfe
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
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Publilius Syrus
Never was a miser a brave soul.
George Herbert
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
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
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone
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Miser Translations
miser in German is Geizhals
miser in Spanish is avaro
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