Covetousness Quote by Daniel Defoe Download Open image “As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.” — Daniel Defoe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Covetousness Evil Poverty Worst
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust. — Megan Lee Copy Share Image
“Strah od opasnosti je deset tisuća puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred očima.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who when abroad… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this, I had… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness. — Francis Xavier Copy Share Image
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of covetousness: for… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
