Avarice Quotes

161 Avarice quotes by 121 unique authors

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows… — John Quincy Adams
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck. — Unknown Author
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -… — Abraham Lincoln
We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more… — Samuel Johnson
The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home. — Unknown Author
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. — Antoine Rivarol
If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable. — Georges Courteline
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. — Seneca the Younger
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished… — Tecumseh
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which… — Aristotle
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different… — Pope Benedict XVI
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it… — Alexander Hamilton
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes… — Charles Caleb Colton
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. — Thornton Wilder
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence. — Unknown Author
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of… — Thomas Jefferson
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned… — Thomas Jefferson
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.… — Samuel Johnson
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. — William Penn
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Gautama Buddha
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not. — Publilius Syrus

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