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A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 13

A quotation from Horace

But don’t all things,
virtue, a good name, honor, all that’s human and divine,
obey money, lovely money?

[Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]

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Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, "Si raro scribes," l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)] - Horace | WIST Quotations

But don't all things, virtue, a good name, honor, all that's human and divine, obey money, lovely money? [Omnis enim res, Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris Divitiis parent.] Damasippus (quoting the Stoic philosopher Stertinius?) on the mindset of a miser. (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: For all and every thinge…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 18

A quotation from C. C. Colton

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 314 (1820)

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Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 314 (1820) - Colton, Charles Caleb | WIST Quotations

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Mar 14

A quotation from Horace

You sleep, gaping,
On your bags of gold, adore them like hallowed
Relics not meant to be touched, stare as at gorgeous
Canvases. Money is meant to be spent, it buys pleasure:
Did you know that? Bread, vegetables, wine, you can
Buy almost everything it’s hard to live without.

[Congestis undique saccis
indormis inhians et tamquam parcere sacris
cogeris aut pictis tamquam gaudere tabellis.
Nescis, quo valeat nummus, quem praebeat usum?
Panis ematur, holus, vini sextarius, adde
quis humana sibi doleat natura negatis.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 70ff (1.1.70-75) (35 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 28

A quotation from Horace

Like the Athenian miser, who was wont
To meet men’s curses with a hero’s front:
“Folks hiss me,” said he, “but myself I clap
When I tell o’er my treasures on my lap.”

[Ut quidam memoratur Athenis
sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces
sic solitus: ‘populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.’]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Maecenas,” l. 64ff (1.1.64-67) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 27

A quotation from Franklin

Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1738 ed.)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jan 29

A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Give of thy gold, though small thy portion be.
Gold rusts and shrivels in the hand that keeps it.
It grows in one that opens wide and free.
Who sows his harvest is the one who reaps it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author and poet.
“Give,” st. 3, New Thought Pastels (1906)

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WIST Quotations moves again!Aug 12, 2024

A quotation from Hugo, Victor:

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This brother, who is little remembered, was a complacent miser who, being a priest, felt obliged to give alms to the poor he encountered, though he never gave them anything but worthless Revolutionary coins or demonetized sous, thereby contriving to go to hell by following the path to paradise.
»

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Les Misérables, Part 3 "Marius," Book 2 "The Grand Bourgeois," ch. 6 (3.2.6) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)] - Hugo, Victor | WIST Quotations

This brother, who is little remembered, was a complacent miser who, being a priest, felt obliged to give alms to the poor he encountered, though he never gave them anything but worthless Revolutionary coins or demonetized sous, thereby contriving to go to hell by following the path to paradise. …

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jun 10, 2024

A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin:

«
When will the Miser’s Chest be full enough?
When will he cease his Bags to cram and stuff?
All Day he labours and all Night contrives,
Providing as if he’d an hundred Lives.
While endless Care cuts short the common Span:
So have I seen with Dropsy swoln, a Man,
Drink and drink more, and still unsatis…
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