There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. — Thomas Paine 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
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
“Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his… — al-Haafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee Copy Share Image
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the… — Henry Fielding 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
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure,… — Samuel Johnson 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
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no… — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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