1.
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
2.
I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.
Witter Bynner
3.
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!
William Wordsworth
6.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Horace
8.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Publilius Syrus
9.
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
Albert Camus
11.
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.
Simone Weil
12.
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