Miserliness Quotes & Sayings

The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself ... Some scholars have directly stressed that state interventions create corporatist forms ... the formation, let alone the political capabilities, of such purely socioeconomic phenomena as interest groups and classes depends in significant measure on the structures and activities of the very states the social actors, in turn, seek to influence. — Theda Skocpol

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty. — Rajneesh

That said, some of my best scenes and most dramatic scenes have actually been the ones I've combined to get my word count down. — Rachel Aaron

There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom. — Robert Benchley

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. — Agnes Repplier

Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. — Eric Hoffer

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship. — Kyle MacLachlan

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

How could anyone believe that a political system could provide all of the goods and services a people needed without cost? A daily gratification that would eliminate greed, selfishness, miserliness, and infidelity. A place where man could become noble, strong, and courageous. Crime, violence, and social ills would vanish. It's absurd. The experiment called the Soviet Union only proved that none of that is possible. — Steve Berry

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In early 2014, the global economy's top five companies' gross cash holdings - those of Apple, Google, Microsoft, as well as the US telecom giant Verizon and the Korean electronics conglomerate Samsung - came to $387 billion, the equivalent of the 2013 GDP of the United Arab Emirates.78 This capital imbalance puts the fate of the world economy in the hands of the few cash hoarders like Apple and Google, whose profits are mostly kept offshore to avoid paying US tax. "Apple, Google and Facebook are latter-day scrooges," worries the Financial Times columnist John Plender about a corporate miserliness that is undermining the growth of the world economy. — Andrew Keen

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. — George Eliot

Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetime
when they can't take their riches
to the grave.

- Gwallawg is Other — Taliesin

None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world. — Sufyan Al-Thawri

Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers. — P. J. O'Rourke

Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women — Ali R.A

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise. — Alexander Pope

Women, never have got full credit for thei bravery, they sacrifice everything to life — Patrick Kavanagh

The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore. — Kate Simon

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. — Leslie Charteris

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements. — David Ayer

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed. — Thorstein Veblen

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace — Giacomo Leopardi