Miserliness Quotes

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

- Gwallawg is Other”
― Taliesin, Taliesin Poems

“Tumia pesa kibahili, si kibadhiri.”
― Enock Maregesi

“If you have no contentment, you are poor even though you may be wealthy.
for the mind of a miser is never satisfied.
Those who are content are truly the richest.
Even if they have little, their minds are filled with happiness.

—Stainless Light, the testament of Drimé Özer”
― Longchen Rabjam, The Life of Longchenpa: The Omniscient Dharma King of the Vast Expanse

“Thou knowest for thee I tie my purse with a spider’s thread.”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros