Top 118 Covet Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.
I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.
Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.
The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet.
Compliment but do not covet.
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
The more of Heaven we cherish, the less of Earth we covet.
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without a semblance of good, are really so ill as they are described to us.
Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.
People always covet what they themselves do not possess.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.
I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Fondnesse it were for any being free,
To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin?s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura.
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart piano concertos. Only rarely was I able to find the money for such luxuries.
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women
We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
Do not covet your ideas.
Those who covet much suffer from the want.
I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.
There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.
I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it.
If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
Is there any way to safeguard and acquire wealth? Yes, there is one sure way: namely, never to covet the wealth of another.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.
