Definition of Miser

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Definition of Miser

Miser

A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.

A despicable person; a wretch.

A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.

A kind of large earth auger.

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Miser Quotations

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Gertrude Stein

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
Honore de Balzac

Never was a miser a brave soul.
George Herbert

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
Thomas Fuller

Miser Translations

miser in German is Geizhals
miser in Spanish is avaro

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