Greedy Quotes

334 Greedy quotes by 278 unique authors

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good… — Billy Connolly
The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires… — Taylor Mali
The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people… — Wendell Berry
The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand.… — P.J. O'Rourke
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle,… — Richard Bach
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy… — Kurt Vonnegut
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. — Horace
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or… — John Irving
In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping… — Muhammad al-Baqir
I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. — Ivan Boesky
We risk all in being too greedy. — Jean de La Fontaine
I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more?… — Vince McMahon
Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by… — Terence Blacker
A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can… — Rajneesh
The poor lack much, the greedy everything. — Publilius Syrus
I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers. — John Sweeney
Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you get rid of… — Rajneesh
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins,… — Pat Robertson
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been,… — Hunter S. Thompson
... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich… — Daniel J. Mitchell
Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron… — Harry Browne
Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it,… — Tanith Lee
You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy,… — Thierry Henry

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