Quotes by Misers I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. Albert Camus misers excess disappear Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. Alphonse de Lamartine misers affection women The misers cheese is wholesomest Benjamin Franklin misers cheese The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton cunning misers cleverness The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. Horace misers gains use The miser robs himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater misers The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. Publilius Syrus misers greed want The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it. Simone Weil misers treasure desire Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others. Wilfred Bion misers benefits care As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect. William Hazlitt value-of-time misers inspirational To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! William Wordsworth misers favourite truth I am a miser of my memories of you Witter Bynner misers memories