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Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 12) A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 13) A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. - William Benton Clulow O cursed hunger of pernicious gold? - John Dryden History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an illustrious miser. - Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de Saint-Evremond 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. - Benjamin Franklin, The Whistle Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. - Claude Arien Helvetius The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (170) A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas it is only the means of obtaining it. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld The miser robs himself. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. - John Milton, Comus (l. 398) The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. - Theodore Parker 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.] - Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia), Fables (IV, 19, 16) He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor Away unalmed; and midst abundance died-- Sorest of evils!--died of utter want. - Robert Pollok, Course of Time (bk. III, l. 276) '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? - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. IV, l. 1) The life of a miser is a play of which we applaud only the closing scene. - Joseph Sanial-Dubay Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood. Thou art no father nor friend of mine. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at V, iv) A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. - William Shenstone Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. - William Shenstone 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.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. - Edward Young
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