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
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness,… — 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
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture… — Russell Kirk 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
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons. — David Hume Copy Share Image
We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory… — Maximus the Confessor 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
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. — Antoine Rivarol 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
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