There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington Copy Share Image
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable. — Georges Courteline Copy Share Image
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors hid. Fantastic was the… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. — Livy Copy Share Image
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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