To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. — Thomas a Kempis 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
“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance… — Barry Lopez 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
Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being… — Thomas Paine 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
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second… — Samuel Johnson 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
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life. — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Copy Share Image
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain?… — Olaudah Equiano 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
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
