In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
“Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more to chasing after wealth than the wastage of a person’s noble life for that which has no value.… — Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status Copy Share Image
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
“Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
