Avarice Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

— Raj Patel

The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

— Theodore T. Munger

It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together…

— Bat for Lashes

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

I always go thrift shopping wherever I am.

— Borns

Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

— Catherine Crook de Camp