The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous 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
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was… — Sue Fortin Copy Share Image
We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs. — Joseph Addison 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
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck 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
