MISER

Related Subjects: Avarice, Gold, Money, Possessions

1. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.—Bible, Psalms 39:6
   

2. He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.—BION
   

3. A ful Bret fool is he, y-wis,
   That bothe riche and nigard is.—CHAUCER, The Romaunt of the Rose
   

4. A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

5. Punishment of a miser,—to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb.—HAWTHORNE, American Note-Books
   

6. The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.—HORACE, Ars Poetica
   

7. The unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.—MILTON, Comus
   

8. The beautiful eyes of my money-box!—MOLIERE, L'Avare
   

9. Which is the happier or the wiser,
   A man of merit, or a miser?—POPE, Imitations of Horace
   

10. The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.—Proverb

11. As good beg of a naked man as of a miser.—Proverb
    

12. His money comes from him like drops of blood.—Proverb
    

13. The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

14. Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
    A little cloth.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V