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| A miser and a liar bargain quickly. Modern Greek. | 1 |
| A miser grows rich by seeming poor, an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. Shenstone. | 2 |
| A miserly father makes a prodigal son. | 3 |
| A miser’s son is generally a spendthrift. Latin. | 4 |
| Addition is the miser’s sum of happiness. Punch. | 5 |
| As good beg of a naked man as a miser. | 6 |
| He that keeps up his riches and lives poorly is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. | 7 |
| He weeps at throwing away the water in which he was washed. Plautus. | 8 |
| His money takes the place of wisdom. Dutch. | 9 |
| If the niggard should once taste the sweetness of giving, he’d give all away. | 10 |
| Misers put their back and their belly into their pocket. | 11 |
| Misers’ money goes twice to market. Spanish, Portuguese. | 12 |
| No feast like a miser’s. French. | 13 |
| Poor though in the midst of wealth. Latin. | 14 |
| The miser and the pig are of no use till dead. French. | 15 |
| The miser doth spoil his coat by scanting a little cloth. Shakespeare. | 16 |
| The miser acquires yet fears to use his gains. Horace. | 17 |
| The miser grows old, but his miserly spirit remains young. German. | 18 |
| The miser is always poor. German. | 19 |
| The miser is ever in want. Horace. | 20 |
| The miser’s bag is never full. Danish. | 21 |
| The miser’s chest is rich, but he is as poor as a wolf. German. | 22 |
| The miser’s friendship continues as long as he gains by it. German. | 23 |
| The only good a miser does is to prove the little happiness there is to be found in wealth. | 24 |
| The riches of the miser fall into the hands of the spendthrift. Modern Greek. | 25 |
| The wolf is sometimes satisfied, the miser never. German. | 26 |
’Tis strange the miser should his cares employ
To gain those riches he can ne’er enjoy. Pope. | 27 |
| To beg of the miser is to dig a trench in the sea. Turkish. | 28 |
| What he has is no more use to the miser than what he has not. Publius Syrus. | 29 |
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