#miser

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#attending #awards #behind #being #ceremonies

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#maintains #miserable #person #poor #wealth

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#corrosive #devising #evil #exact #hate

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#i #i wish #miser #must #occupying

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#much #want

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. ↗

— Tacitus

#affluence #amid #great #happy #many

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. ↗

— Amy Tan

#book #books #go #hope #i

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#images #misery #reminiscent #thirty #war