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
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 12)
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A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 13)
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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
Quotes , Source: The Whistle
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Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill;
Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Traveller
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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)
Quotes , Source: Fables (IV, 19, 16)
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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
Quotes , Source: Course of Time (bk. III, l. 276)
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'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
Quotes , Source: Moral Essays (ep. IV, l. 1)
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Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch!
I am descended of a gentler blood.
Thou art no father nor friend of mine.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at V, iv)
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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)
Quotes , Source: Maxims
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