Miserly Person Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give,
he said.
"How?" Caroline asked.
"To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance. — Luanne Rice

Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind. — Jim DeMint

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations. — Joel Plaskett

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remaining adolescent means rejecting all compensatory lies about one's life ... — Chris Kraus

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else. — Henry Hazlitt

He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating. — H.G.Wells

He felt a discrepancy between the growing luxury in which the Divers lived & the need for display which apparently went along with it, — F Scott Fitzgerald

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people. — Tracy Morgan

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them. — Stephan Jenkins