“for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Nothing is quite so attractive in our possession as it was when coveted” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition,… — Michel de Montaigne 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
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase… — Frank Chodorov 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
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to… — William Penn Copy Share Image
When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He can go about his business, so completely satisfied to see and be part of the divine Order of Things that he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it… — Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib 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
“But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
“Plotting covetousness and deliberate contrivance, in order to compass a selfish end, are nowhere abundant but in the world of the dramatist:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
