The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness. — Francis Xavier Copy Share Image
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. — Horace Copy Share Image
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. — Ovid Copy Share Image
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for… — Derek A. Cuthbert Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade? — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15).” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness,… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man;… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
“I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it… — Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib Copy Share Image
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. — Robert South Copy Share Image
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Nothing is quite so attractive in our possession as it was when coveted” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
