I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace Copy Share Image
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was… — Sue Fortin Copy Share Image
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. — Edmund Pendleton Copy Share Image
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be assuming the shape… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar,… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
