Avarice Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

— George Washington

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and…

— Anonymous

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

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

— Benjamin Franklin

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away…

— Edmund Burke

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

— Confucius

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

— Benjamin Franklin

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

— Adam Smith

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

— Charles Caleb Colton