Accumulation Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

— Thomas Paine

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to…

— Samuel Johnson

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those…

— Henry Taylor

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

— Pliny the Elder

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one…

— Samuel Johnson

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

— Juvenal

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always…

— Aristotle

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

— Marcus Licinius Crassus

“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious…

— Augustine of Hippo

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor,…

— Thomas Paine