Misers QUOTES

1 " You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels; till you are as familiar with the ways of God in all Ages as with your walk and table: till you are intimately acquainted with that shady nothing out of which the world was made: till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never
enjoy the world. "

― Thomas Traherne , Centuries of Meditations

2 " I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. "

― Michel de Montaigne

3 " We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland. "

― Slavoj Žižek

4 " The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. "

― Diane Ackerman , A Natural History of the Senses

5 " I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship. "

6 " I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. "