Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the…

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

— Laozi

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

— Daniel Defoe

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit…

— William Penn

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their…

— William Penn

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what…

— Alistair Begg

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in…

— Michel de Montaigne

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

— William Penn

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred…

— Gautama Buddha

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape…

— Martin Luther

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

— Francis Xavier

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It…

— Anonymous

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough…

— J. Reuben Clark

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

— Confucius