Quotes having the keyword Miser
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.
by Honore De Balzac (Novelist, French , born in 1799) keywords: above, been, cares, enjoyment, gains, his, intellectual, joys, key, miser, ours, soared, thought, thus, treasures, where, without , world 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.
by William Blake (Artist, English , born in 1757) keywords: bag, beautiful, eyes, filled, grapes, guinea, miser, money, more, proportions, sun, than, use, vine , worn 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.
by William Blake (Artist, English , born in 1757) keywords: alleged, cause, distress, elsewhere, endure, fortitude, greater, hardships, his, honest, many, miser, money, must, never, passion, seek, than, therefore, thief , 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.
by John Dryden (Poet, English , born in 1631) keywords: dead, estate, go, gone, his, left, may, miser, money, others, pole, say, see, sell, son, soul, trade, vast, wares , your Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
by Karl Kraus (Writer, Austrian , born in 1874) topics: Experience keywords: aside, cannot, exhaust, experiences, inheritance, miser, puts, savings, which , wisdom 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.
by Theodore Parker (Theologian, American , born in 1970) keywords: also, body, brother, creep, death, estate, great, his, injustice, miser, miserable, naked, out, own, poor, shall, soul, starves , starving 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.
by James Payn (Novelist, English , born in 1830) keywords: altogether, benevolent, denying, far, hear, himself, his, indeed, life, little, mind, miser, more, necessaries, nothing, presence, ridding, satisfactory, than, too, truly , us 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.
by George Santayana (Philosopher, American , born in 1970) keywords: altogether, ape, drunkard, human, irrational, maniac, miser, repulsive, see, something , terrible This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: artist, beauty, eternity, glory, hungry, life, man, miser, slave , then
