The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. — Horace 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
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.” — Rachilde 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
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
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their… — John Bunyan 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
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are… — James Madison 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
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become… — Francis Quarles 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
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
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister. “Pride?” Catelyn snapped. His mocking tone and easy manner made her angry.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls… — H. L. Mencken 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
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of… — Helen Steiner Rice 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
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
