Avarice Quote by Jonathan Swift

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Thomas Paine

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made…

— Frances Power Cobbe

The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in…

— Mary Roach

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poverty is the surest way to weigh down a soul. And weighted soul does whatever it can do to get some burden off.”

— Jessica Gadziala

What good is material wealth if you're poor in spirit?

— Ramandeep Singh

“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating…

— Edward Abbey

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them…

— Jean Cocteau