Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them… — Tom Tryon Copy Share Image
There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has… — Bob Wright Copy Share Image
...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man;… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
