Top 1200 Avarice Greed Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Greed has no boundaries

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.