Discomfort Quote by Ali ibn Abi Talib

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated.

— Anonymous

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue…

— Euripides

He who is greedy is always in want.

— Horace

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an…

— Samuel Johnson

People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child…

— Gautama Buddha

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander…

— Saadi

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice…

— E. F. Benson

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace…

— Plato